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About this episode

[Originally released Jun 2018]

Yueran Zhang is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Harvard University. Yueran joins Brett to discuss Mao and the Chinese Revolution.

Yueran's academic profile is here: https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/yueran-zhang

Here are the recommendations Yueran gave at the end of the episode:

- Mao's China and After: http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Maos-China-and-After/Maurice-Meisner/9780684856353

Rise of the Red Engineers: https://www.eastwestcenter.org/publications/rise-red-engineers-cultural-revolution-and-origins-chinas-new-class

The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674728790

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Outro Song: "Chairman Mao" by Bambu

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