Mao Zedong
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Ranking Mass Murder..
Omar Ali, prompted by an NYRB article asking who killed more, offers tentative criteria for ranking mass murderers, beginning with intent, and argues the question grows more complicated the more…
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The Man on Mao’s Right..
Reviews Ji Chaozhu’s memoir The Man on Mao’s Right, by a diplomat who interpreted for Chinese leaders for decades and became ambassador in London, whose story runs from the Japanese…
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The Yellow River turns Red
Recalling the 1938 breaching of Yellow River levees that killed 800,000, the poster argues Mao’s atrocities are only now being appreciated and that much of the academic left, with Arundhati…
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Dragon slayer
The post argues that China frightens more than Islamist violence: Mao’s tens of millions of deaths, forced abortions under birth controls, South China Sea claims, and a state that can…
