The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer

The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China

James Palmer

288 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. This title recreates the tensions of that fateful summer, when the fate of China and the world were in the balance - as injured and starving people crawled amo...

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