A large number of Australians of Chinese descent have signed a petition deploring concerts being held in Sydney and Melbourne in September, to mark the 40th anniversary of the death of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. A flyer promoting the concerts, written in Chinese, says that Mao “brought 76 years of peace and stable development for the Chinese people, until today where China has been restored to the status of an international major power”. Shangxiao Han, who migrated to A…
