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The very last emperor: Deng freed China's economy - and brutally crushed dissent
Deng was a pragmatist who instituted gradual and controlled market reforms to liberalize China's economy, and He also normalized relations with the US....(Continue Reading) Li Yuqin, wife of 'last emperor' of China, dies at 73
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BEIJING, Dec. 3 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING) Chinese officials said Wednesday they had protested to Japanese diplomats against Japan's planned celebration ......(Continue Reading)The Olympics push China into the twenty-first century
AFTER reading for years about the havoc wrought by the Cultural Revolution and the bloody events of Tiananmen Square, I could not believe that it was ......(Continue Reading)Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China - Review
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China, by Judith Shapiro (Cambridge University Press, 2001; $18.95) How Mao ......(Continue Reading)
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