Jonathan Mirsky

Mao devours his foes

Cannibalism is added to Maoism’s many other crimes in Frank Dikötter’s final searing volume of A People’s History

issue 30 April 2016

  • The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962–1976

    Frank Dikötter

    Bloomsbury, pp. 382

  • The Cowshed: Memories of the Cultural Revolution

    Ji Xianlin, translated by Chenxin Jiang

    New York Review of Books, pp. 188

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