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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hello lemmygrad friends!

On discussing China with a friend, he took a beautiful copy of the book in the title as support for "but the Chinese revolution actually prosecuted people", or something. The usual.

Challenge is now I have 700 pages to read, apparently about how Mao bad, China bad, communism bad.

To my questions: anyone out there knows about this book? Anything I should know while reading it? Anything worthwhile to expect about the book?

Thnak you in advance!

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

She's a Chinese gusano with an axe to grind against the CPC and her books are anti-communist propaganda garbage, banned in China and for good reason. Apparently her book about Mao is so bad that even Henry Kissinger described it as grotesquely one sided. Actual historians call it a gross distortion of the records. It's full of fabrications and exaggerations she and her husband simply invented, comparable to Solzhenitsyn's notoriously made up fantasy stories about the USSR. Their atrocious historical methodology and misuse of sources would not be accepted even in a high school history class. I put her on the same level as other hateful hacks and pseudo-academics like Anne Applebaum or Timothy Snyder.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thank you! Sounds like a good primer.

I'm not on the mood for 700 pages of grotesque cherrypicking research. I'll probably skim the index and check few chapters, but certainly not the whole thing.

Is there any other similar but honest biography of Mao?

this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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