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Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Journal of Military and Strategic Studies
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story. New York: Knopff, 2005.
David Curtis Wright, University of Calgary
Abstract
In late September 2004 I was invited by the Chinese consulate in Calgary, Alberta to a banquet at an elegant restaurant in Chinatown to celebrate the fifty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, a historical event which occurred on October 1, 1949. I attended the banquet, and the grand and formal if somewhat staged and sappy occasion was made more palatable by the bounteous and delectable (how could it have been otherwise?) cuisine served.