China Under Mao

China Under Mao

Chinaâ€™s Communist Party seized power in 1949 after a long guerrilla insurgency followed by full-scale war, but the revolution was just beginning. Andrew Walder narrates the rise and fall of the Maoist state from 1949 to 1976â€”an epoch of startling accomplishments and disastrous failures, steered by many forces but dominated above all by Mao Zedong.

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