A man poses in front of portraits of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong during the opening of an exhibition of Mao related art in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People's Liberation Army (PLA) officer Yao Werdong wears a pin with the portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong during the opening of an exhibition of Mao related art in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People look at portraits of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong during the opening of an exhibition of Mao related art in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man poses in front of a portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong during the opening of an exhibition of Mao related art in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People attend the opening of an exhibition of images related to late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in Beijing, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





A man holds a statue of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong, as he presents his collections at his home, ahead of Mao's 40th death anniversary, in Zhangye, Gansu Province, China, September 8, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Participants wave as they swim with a portrait of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong in the Xiangjiang river, a large branch of the Yangtze River, in Changsha, Hunan province, China, July 18, 2015. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A portrait of late Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong and a photo of Chai Ling, one of the student leaders during the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, are seen at a museum dedicated to the protests, in Tsim Sha Tsui April 20, 2014. (Photo by Tyrone Siu/Reuters)





Copies of the Little Red Book are put on display for sale at Panjiayuan flea market in Beijing November 3, 2007. (Photo by Claro Cortes IV/Reuters)





Participants run past the Tiananmen Gate in front of the portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong during the 2010 Beijing Marathon on a rainy day in Beijing October 24, 2010. (Photo by Grace Liang/Reuters)





Monitor cameras work in front of the giant portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong on Beijing's Tiananmen Square, September 28, 2009. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)





A portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong on a yuan banknote is reflected in water droplets in this picture illustration taken in Taipei October 8, 2010. (Photo by Nicky Loh/Reuters)





A badge bearing the portrait of former Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong can be seen attached to a hat next to a Chinese Communist Party badge and a red star at a market in Beijing July 1, 2008. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





A giant statue of former Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong is seen behind a red wall at the campus of Fudan University in Shanghai June 4, 2009. (Photo by Nir Elias/Reuters)





A paramilitary policeman stands guard in front of the giant portrait of former Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong, on a snow-covered Tiananmen Square in Beijing January 3, 2010. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





A sculpture by Huang Gang of China entitled “Good Good Good” is seen at the ARTSingapore art fair at the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore October 4, 2007. (Photo by Matthew Lee/Reuters)





Sculptors work as they stand on scaffolding surrounding a statue of the late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong in the town of Dangcheng, located 250km (155 miles) southwest of Beijing, March 23, 2009. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





A statue of the former Chinese chairman Mao Zedong stands in front of an apartment building in the Miyun county, 60 kilometres (40 miles) north of Beijing January 31, 2012. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





A student falls asleep as she holds a book containing a portrait of China's late chairman Mao Zedong during a lesson at the Democracy Elementary and Middle School in Sitong town, Henan province December 3, 2013. (Photo by Carlos Barria/Reuters)





A crane is seen next to a giant statue of Chinese late chairman Mao Zedong under construction near crop fields in a village of Tongxu county, Henan province, China, January 4, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Pins bearing images of China's late Chairman Mao Zedong are displayed at a souvenir shop in Beijing, November 25, 2013. (Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)





Winter swimmers put on clothes in front of a painting of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong after a swimming exercise in the Yangtze River to celebrate the 120th birth anniversary of Mao, in Wuhan, Hubei province December 26, 2013. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A worker cleans near a poster of the late Chairman Mao Zedong at a thermal power plant of the Nanjie Cun Group in Nanjie village of Luohe city in China's central Henan province September 25, 2012. (Photo by Jason Lee/Reuters)