
The Everlasting Mao
Oct 23, 2020 reviews recent books on Maoism, many versions of which continue to underpin Chinese politics to this day.
Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, is the author, most recently, of China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism (Harvard, 2020).
Oct 23, 2020 reviews recent books on Maoism, many versions of which continue to underpin Chinese politics to this day.
Apr 7, 2017 reviews seven recent books that provide a glimpse of what the future of Sino-US relations may hold in store.
Sep 4, 2015 asks what Nationalist WWII veterans were doing at the Communist Party's big military display.
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