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Jul 2019
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Little Red Book, Big Red Ideas: Part 2 o...

JORDAN SCHNEIDER
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This week, in part 2 of a special two-part edition of ChinaEconTalk, Jordan interviews Professor Julia Lovell, author of the recently published book on Mao’s international legacy entitled Maoism: A Global History. In this episode, Lovell recounts the ways in which Maoism truly started going global in the 1950s and 1960s. With some prompting courtesy of the C ... Show More
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