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“This book has many of the qualities of a spy novel, though it’s a true story…It’s about an American secret agent who ends up in Mao’s China during the Korean War and is a prisoner there for a long time…In this book, you learn a lot about Mao’s China, you learn about the Korean War, you learn about McCarthyism in America and even about the history of Chinese studies. All this is woven into this page-turner.” Read more...
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