Communist Party Founding Meeting

I had a chance to visit the first meeting place of the Chinese Communist Party, on July 1, 1921 - now a museum as part of XinTianDi, a new upscale shopping district catering to foreigners. It is a small museum, but very interesting, especially the full-size replica of the meeting, complete with wax statues of all the key players, with a young Mao standing at the table - a very powerful scene to watch the founding of a country. Downstairs is the actual room the men met in, also a powerful scene. In the ultimate irony, though, a visit to the men's washroom shows Japanese sinks and American hand dryers; if Mao only knew.