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Mao Zedong Part 3: The Cultural Revolution

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The Legacy of Mao

Mao is the man who united China under a central government and modernized its economy, but killed unthinkable numbers of his own people. He's inescapably central to the history of the world's most populous country. Many Chinese today say the reason why we have great industrial growth, but we lack culture. We're only now piecing it together.

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