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Reckoning with China (Robert Wright & Edward Wong)

The Wright Show

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Journey and Disillusionment in 1950s China

This chapter explores the speaker's father's experience in China during the late 1950s and early 1960s, focusing on his dream of becoming an aerospace engineer, his disappointment with the Communist Party amidst distrust and the great famine under Mao's leadership, and his gradual disapproval of the party due to personal and historical events.

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