Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights.
This book tackles the extremely negative depiction of China under Mao in recent publications and argues most people in China, including the rural poor and the urban working class, actually benefited from Mao\'s policy of a compre.
As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being surgically denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite.
Mao and his policies have long been demonised in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights