01:1201:12, 5 January 2011diffhist−3,014
Great Leap Forward
Removed reference to dikotters work which is polemical and has not been academically reiewed. Dikotter has made racist and extremist comments on Chinese in the past.
01:0601:06, 5 January 2011diffhist−1,326
Great Chinese Famine
Removing references to Dikotters work, only recently released and not yet academically reviewed. Furthermore Dikotter's book is clearly of an extreme polemical nature.
4 January 2011
15:4715:47, 4 January 2011diffhist−391
Great Leap Forward
saying that the CR was simply an act of vengeance by Mao is treating a very complex movement in an over simplistic way - just pure speculation; Remember - no mind reading.
01:1201:12, 5 January 2011diffhist−3,014
Great Leap Forward
Removed reference to dikotters work which is polemical and has not been academically reiewed. Dikotter has made racist and extremist comments on Chinese in the past.
01:0601:06, 5 January 2011diffhist−1,326
Great Chinese Famine
Removing references to Dikotters work, only recently released and not yet academically reviewed. Furthermore Dikotter's book is clearly of an extreme polemical nature.
4 January 2011
15:4715:47, 4 January 2011diffhist−391
Great Leap Forward
saying that the CR was simply an act of vengeance by Mao is treating a very complex movement in an over simplistic way - just pure speculation; Remember - no mind reading.