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The death of Mao : the Tangshan earthquake and the birth of the New China

Palmer, James, 1978-2013
In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people. But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted, paralyse...
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