Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China by James Palmer

Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China

James Palmer

296 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned ...

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