Volume 45, Number 2 · February 5, 1998

The Mark of Cain

By Jonathan Mirsky
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution 3: The Coming of the Cataclysm 1961-1966
by Roderick MacFarquhar

Columbia University Press, 733 pp., $47.50

Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949 Vol. IV: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Soviet Republic 1931-1934
edited by Stuart R. Schram, by Nancy J. Hodes Associate Editor, by Stephen C. Averill Guest Associate Editor

M.E. Sharpe, 1006 pp., $150.00

In Hong Kong's China Club, fashionable people have lunch beneath pictures of Mao Zedong after a drink in the Long March Bar. Most of the members are refugees from Mao or the children of refugees. In Russia, or Germany, or Cambodia, there is surely no equally fashionable place which displays likenesses of Stalin, Hitler, or Pol Pot.



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