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Title: The death of Mao: the Tangshan earthquake and the birth of the New China / James Palmer [Go to resource]
Description: In the summer of 1976 Mao lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan was one of the worst in recorded history killing half a million people. But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted paralysed by in-fighting over who would take control after Mao finally died. Temporal: 2012 Source: Lincolnshire County Council Identifier: http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... Go to resource More Like this...
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