Jiangxi's Fake Great Wall means you don't have to go to Beijing to be a man anymore

"If you haven't been to the Great Wall, you aren't a real man," Mao Zedong once said. 

On this, like other matters, it turns out the Chairman may not have been 100 percent spot on. After the erection of a striking (and not wholly unconvincing) copy, Jiangxi Province, too, can make a man out of you. 

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Visitors to Nanchang's "shanzhai Great Wall" say that friends all think they've been to Beijing when they posted the images online.

Considering the extent to which some sections of the real deal have been restored (i.e. reconstructed), a trip to Jiangxi's Fake Great Wall may not be that much more disingenuous than Badaling Great Wall 

In what has been a bumper season for copycat architecture, this Fake Great Wall is the second to be completed in as many weeks, coming hot on the heels of this Wuhan college's "campus Great Wall."

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[Images via CRI]