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Another kind of Chinese History

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May 02, 2011
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The party history does not recount the story of Guan Yuqian, a former interpreter at the Ministry of Finance in Beijing. But his experience, which he describes in two recent books, captures the pain and trauma of tens of thousands of people during those traumatic three decades.

Born in Guangzhou in 1931 and gro…

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