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The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China

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China is a superpower increasingly central to global economics, yet a generation ago it was a country characterized by poverty and chaos. This book is about the moment when everything changed.

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In 1976 Mao was dying and China was struck by struck by a colossal natural disaster which caused the death of half a million people. James Palmer tells the dramatic, truly epic story of how a vast country came to a historical crossroads and chose to turn its back on one kind of totalitarian madness.

Author: James Palmer

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273 pages