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HarveyVdarski posted:So I thought that I would start with the last book I finished; If you're further interested in that era of China, I highly recommend Jung Chang's Wild Swans which is a biographical account of three generations of her family which span the whole of the last century. It's definitely bleak and morbid in some parts and there are some accounts that were genuinely shocking but it gives a pretty frank insight into what it was like living at that time, especially as women. Private Life Of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li is also excellent. Being Mao's personal physician for over two decades, you would be hard pressed to find a more intimate account of his life. You get a real idea of how paranoid Mao was of losing power and what his mentality was behind the crazy poo poo like the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Currently looking to start Crimea by Orlando Figes.  Figes' other stuff on Russia is really good so I figured I'd try this one out. It has good reviews and all. He also went batshit crazy a while ago where he started posting what he thought were anonymous Amazon reviews having a go at other historians then denying it.
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