BOOK REVIEW The epic awfulness of Mao and his ‘isms’*




MAOISM: A Global History
by Julia Lovell
Vintage, London Paperback: 448 pages Price: AUD$35
Reviewed by Bill James
Those over a certain age will remember the reign of Mao back in the 1960s and ’70s.
His icon was taped to the walls of student digs, from where the Great Helmsman could preside over the long hair, hippy clothes, rock music, all-night partying, drug taking and casual sex – all of which which his puritanical apparatchiks forbade i…

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