Mao’s legacy Bill James (News Weekly, November 2, 2019), in his reply to my letter (News Weekly, October 19, 2019) tells us that “life expectancy in China rose from 35-40 years in 1949 to 65.5 years in 1980”. He also tells us that “facts remain facts”. I agree. However, there are facts other than statistics, and, besides, how factual are Chinese statistics of the period 1949–80 and any studies based on them? If we accept that life expectancy in 1949 was 35-…
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