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To subscribe to the magazine, click here . China's leaders are intent on celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic, but their view of the triumphs of history has been massaged over the years to emphasize the good bits and skate swiftly over the disastrous political campaigns in which millions died. By James Miles. A British academic worked with China's communist armies in the 1930s and 1940s, believing that the communists were closer to the people and held out more promise for the country's future than the nationalist Kuomintang government. By Susan V. Lawrence.