The Cult of Chou (review of Coming Alive: China after Mao, by Roger Garside)

Coming Alive: China after MaoBy Roger GarsideMcGraw-Hill, 458 pp., $12.95

Roger Garside, a Chinese-speaking British diplomat, had two purposes in writing this fascinating book. The first was to describe “how life returned to a nation that had been half dead” and to detail Mao Tse-tung’s responsibility for the disaster which befell almost a billion human beings.

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Coming Alive: China after MaoBy Roger GarsideMcGraw-Hill, 458 pp., $12.95

Roger Garside, a Chinese-speaking British diplomat, had two purposes in writing this fascinating book. The first was to describe “how life returned to a nation that had been half dead” and to detail Mao Tse-tung’s responsibility for the disaster which befell almost a billion human beings.