The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China by James Palmer

The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China

James Palmer

273 pages paperback 2012

2 editions

nonfiction history emotional informative slow-paced
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In the summer of 1976, Mao lay dying, and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people. But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were d...

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