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‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript

‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript

Update: 2025-07-03
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This week on the ABR podcast we feature Shan Windscript’s review of Bombard the Headquarters! by Linda Jaivin. Though Windscript applauds Jaivin for condensing the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of Communist China into a succinct and vivid account, Windscript argues this approach sacrifices historical nuance. Shan Windscript is a cultural historian of modern China and Lecturer in East Asian History at Monash University. Listen to Shan Windscript with ‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’,published in the July issue of ABR

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‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript

‘Mao’s mango: Cultural Revolution as history or farce’ by Shan Windscript

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