Robert
2008-06-25 08:38:24
There was a similar willful blindness throughout the west with regard to Mao’s China, especially the roughly 40 million who died in the famine caused by the Great Leap Forward (1958-60). See Jasper Becker’s book, Hungry Ghosts.
And the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was likewise trendy among academics and intellectuals in the west — at least until the Chinese themselves made it clear, after Mao’s death, that the CR was 10 years of unrelieved manmade disasters.
