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...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...
...MAO II by Don DeLillo...
...MAO II by Don DeLillo...
...consequences of World War II were also ambiguous. It destroyed the Third Reich and the Empire of the Rising Sun, but it made possible Stalin's conquest of Eastern Europe and Mao's triumph in China...
That left Chiang and his Chinese Nationalists to fight on against the Japanese, the growing communist guerrilla forces of Mao Zedong and a clutch of surviving warlords. On the night of July 7, 1937, came the murky events that constituted the long-expected "incident." A Japanese soldier apparently wandered off to relieve himself near the Marco Polo Bridge, outside Beijing. His comrades, who later claimed they feared he had been kidnapped, got into a gunfight with a nearby Chinese Nationalist unit, and the fighting soon spread...