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Review title: What I was taught when studying Asian Studies at UCD
Product review: "...and under the loving gaze of Mao our Great Leader the happy and industrious peasants of Long Bow village lived happily ever after". Buy this book if you want to like to read books that would warm the heart of even Kim Jong Il. Even I as a naive 23 year old studying Chinese history back in day at UC Davis I was taken aback by the sugar sweetness dripping from some of the accounts in this book that was REQUIRED READING. No need to add to what is already said in the other reviews, but it is interesting to note that the author, Charles Hinton, was a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist. How much a Marxist? He protested against Deng Xiao Ping's market reforms even though it improved the economic lot of countless Chinese. Save your money unless you like reading a bunch of fluff from a man who died with his (thick) rose glasses still stuck to his face.
