Controversy over Mao concerts riles Chinese community

Members of Australia's Chinese community have clashed over planned concerts in Australia to celebrate China's late communist leader known as Chairman Mao. Image: Mao Zedong statue in a store in China (AAP)

There are calls for city councils to intervene to stop the events which some fear will divide the community.

 

Many of those who suffered under former Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong see him as one of history's worst mass murderers.