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The Atlantic on China’s Slow Confronting of the ‘Great Leap Forward’

Posted: July 22nd, 2012 | 2 Comments »

An interesting article in The Atlantic on renewed (or just new really!) discussion on the Great Leap Forward in the wake of the Bo Xilai mess. Of course for those inside China it is extremely hard to access records and texts of scholarship on many aspects of the GLF, just as it with the continued silence around the Cultural Revolution or June 1989.

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2 Comments on “The Atlantic on China’s Slow Confronting of the ‘Great Leap Forward’”

  1. 1 Paul French said at 5:38 pm on July 22nd, 2012:

    Paul, the links to the Atlantic are not working. You have the right ones?

  2. 2 Paul French said at 8:44 pm on July 22nd, 2012:

    thanks – works now

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