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“Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party? I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces. In the name of revolution, for thought crimes, Such questions can turn me to ashes.”

Novel Literary Fiction Chinese American Maoist China The Cultural Revolution Chinese Canadian The Vietnam War

Book:Calls Across the Pacific

Source: Calls Across the Pacific

“Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent of the KGB in China. There was no need. In bringing out and nourishing the worst in people, Mao had created a moral wasteland and a land of hatred.”

Morality Hatred Mao Kgb Maoism Maoist China

Book:Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“Part of the Maoist project was the deliberate construction of a new moral identity. To do this it was necessary to destroy people’s previous sense of who they were and to make sure there was no room for it grow back.”

Morality China Mao Maoism Maoist China

Book:Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

Source: Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century

“Ya Ru’s father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion.”

China Mao Zedong Henning Mankell China Sorrows Maoist China

Book:The Man from Beijing

Source: The Man from Beijing