Italy & Tunisia 2005 > Ray's Continuing Journey > Belgrade

This lad, on the other hand, looks straight out of "Rent Collection Courtyard". I tried to go see "Rent Collection Courtyard" in the outskirts of Chengdu in 1986, but the Deng government had already closed it to the public by then as being too embarrassing a recollection of the capitalist road that he was taking. If this had been a Red Guard sculpture, the fisherman would have been throttling a kulak. The Slavs are more symbolic than Maoists; I presume this is Satan or a stand-in for same. I can't determine from "Google" whether RCC has been re-opened to the public, whether two decades of tourist irony and dollars have stilled the comparative spirit in the Chinese artistic peasantry. I do know that the top two sponsored hits on my search were "Landlording Made Easy" and a Rent Recovery Service - Get Your Rent Collected Now!
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