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The Great Leap Backward: Forgetting and Representing the Mao Years. By Lingchei Letty Chen. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press, 2020. 304 pp. ISBN: 9781604979923 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2021

Weijie Song*
Affiliation:
Rutgers University
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Book Reviews—China and Inner Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021

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