https://clevershark.com Bits and rants from Tony Emond Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:36:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 127613282 https://clevershark.com/2011/09/currently-reading-5/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=currently-reading-5 https://clevershark.com/2011/09/currently-reading-5/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:35:46 +0000 http://clevershark.com/?p=2219 Mao’s Last Revolution by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals. An extremely interesting book that focuses on Mao’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976.

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