James Palmer lives in Beijing. He has interviewed many survivors of the Tangshan earthquake and of the Communist Party struggles of that crucial year.
His books include
The Bloody White Baron, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008, and
The Death of Mao, which John Simpson called 'The best account of Mao's last year that we have.'
The Death of Mao opens in the summer of 1976, as Mao Zedong lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people.
But the Chinese Communist...
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