The death of Mao
Subtitle: the Tangshan Earthquake and the birth of the new China
By: James Palmer
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780571243990; 9780571282067
Subjects: Tangshan Earthquake, China, 1976; Politischer Wandel; Reform; Kulturrevolution; Kina; Politik och förvaltning; Historia; China; Erdbeben; Earthquakes; Tod; History
Work titles: Heaven cracks, earth shakes
Description: In the summer of 1976, Mao 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who will protect us now?; title: Living in coal country; title: Tomb-Sweeping Day; title: Four hundred Hiroshimas; title: Everybody saved me; title: You die, I live; title: Aftershocks.