Chairman Mao
Warfare
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The Liberation of the Mind
By the time he came to Britain in 1978, I had already rejected much of the propaganda and the indoctrination that had taken over my brain. The people who did most for my liberation of the mind was the regime itself. My mother was imprisoned in the biggest cinema in Chengdu, where I grew up. While they named all these things as the evils of the West, then I couldn't help saying to myself, you know, the West must be a wonderful place. And so I wanted very much to see the West, and of course, the West did not let me down. So there is, it is in many ways also a liberation.
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