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Chinese artist Gao Zhen and his family stuck in repressive legal limbo over his Mao sculptures
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Authorities are accusing the visual artist, a US resident, over works created in the 2000s that explicitly criticized Chairman Mao's regime. His wife holds out faint hope that Donald Trump's upcoming visit to Beijing, on May 14 and 15, can help her husband's case.
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