Bearing Witness: Maoism as Religion
The role of foreign witnesses in describing exceptional historical events can contribute to the way those events unfold. Three examples serve to illustrate this: Edgar Snow, Anna Louise Strong and Agnes Smedley. At the start of the Chinese communist revolution each of these commentators offered pers...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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CBS Open Journals
2005-04-01
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Series: | The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies |
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Online Access: | https://rauli.cbs.dk/index.php/cjas/article/view/519 |