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173. Chairman Mao & the Cultural Revolution

The Rest Is History

CHAPTER

The Culture Revolution

The culture evolution is one of the single most xenephobic periods of chinese history. It's a period when almost any association with foreignness, whether it's knowing a foreign language or wearing clothes that are perceived to be foreign. And as a result, the fear of foreigners, what they might be, at least in theory, going to do to china, became part of the political language of the time. So runer the the actual events in the culture revolution, it's signalled, in a kind of strange way, by mow going for a swim in the yanksea. This is what will ma himself, actually, through much of his life, used physical exercise

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