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Chinese History
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The national mobilization to exterminate the "Four Pests"... was the first of a series of disasters precipitated by the Great Helmsman after the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
"National mobilisation" meant that all 500 million people in China stopped work in order to take up a single specific task — in this case, the extermination of sparrows, flies, mosquitoes, and rats.
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― The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao
― The Bitter Sea: Coming of Age in a China Before Mao
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Sometimes, to the strains of licentious music, he made Lao Ai walk along with a wheel of tong-wood attached to his penis, and he ensured that the Queen Dowager heard about it so that she might be tempted.
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books about the history of China in the 19th and 20th centuries
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