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“Let Only Red Flowers Bloom is about how this period of rule by the Chinese Communist Party is one that is increasingly intolerant of diversity of cultural forms and of language uses. Xi is trying to get everybody onto the same page in a way that you could argue we haven’t seen since the final decades of Mao’s rule.” Read more...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Historian
Our most recommended books
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The Story of the Stone (also called Dream of the Red Chamber)
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Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics
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The Real Story of Ah-Q
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Red Star over China
by Edgar Snow -
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
by Luo Guanzhong & Moss Roberts (translator) -
Chinese Shadows
by Simon Leys
