Mao looking at Mao

Two blocks away from where I live there are two universities facing
each other, DiZhiDaXue and BeiJingKeJiDaXue. In front of each main
building there is a huge statue of MaoZeDong facing the other statue.
These huge statues always gives me the creeps, and having two of them
is not making the feeling go away.

I try to see it as one is a statue of Mao, and the other is a statue
of Mao admiring his own statue. In most other countries statues of
people are usually built after people die. In authoritarian countries
the trend seems to be that the statues are built when they are alive,
and so were these two. The trend also seem to be that the statues
built that way are torn down when the person is dead. Mao has shown
resistance though. Guess his not quite dead yet. He has turned into a
ghost that is haunting in people's minds.