Looking back on the Great Leap Forward
Frank Dikötter explains how the gradual opening of Chinese archives has revealed the appalling truth about Chairman Mao’s genocidal rule.
In the People’s Republic of China, archives do not belong to the people, they belong to the Communist Party.
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