... and School Library Journal; they have no taste. All in all, those who had previously read this novel kept saying how this account of the Cultural Revolution was absorbing, a page-turner, excellent, completely engrossing. Why, this book is so superb that when I become a millionaire I shall purchase this deeply ... great detail, having no problems with backing up her details with more and more details, giving you the feel of actually being there during the Cultural Revolution. I like my home thank you very much, I"d rather stay here than take a mind trip back to your culturally inept time...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the national territory from foreign annexation or intrusion; (b) To regain what had been lost through foreign interventions; (c) To repel from her borders any threatening or hostile military presence, be it Russian, Japanese, America or any of her power; and (d) To regain for China the status of a world power commensurate with the greatness of her civilisation. China is determined to regain its ... however are not purely national in spirit, because Mao firmly believed in the ideological superiority of communism and claimed for China the role of leadership in the drive to world revolutio...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate