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Business as Usual at the ‘People’s Daily’

Jasper Becker

  • The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. III: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-66 by Roderick MacFarquhar

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Jasper Becker, author of Hungry Ghosts and The Chinese, is the Beijing bureau chief of the South China Morning Post.

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