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Book Reviews - Two Books, One Message

Alice Poon
Oct 08, 2008
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While one book states the obvious case of brazen power abuse and corruption at local government levels and oppression of the underclass by those in power, the other trace the roots of deep-seated distrust amongst Chinese people, especially between those with power and those without, back to the days of the Cultural Revolution, the atrocities of which le…

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