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Modiano, Colette. Chairman Mao & My Millionaires, or Through China with Twenty Snobs. First American Edition. 1970. Book and dust jacket are both in very good minus condition.
Most tourists like to see contrast from home, just not too much. The wealthy Europeans who explored China with this author traveled to Beijing via Aeroflot, but they might as well have accompanied Alice down the rabbit hole. China was then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and up was down and down was up, except the next day they might not be. It is a clash between not only Capitalism and Communism but between common sense and the “cult of Mao.” The author sees the humor in both points of view.
Most tourists like to see contrast from home, just not too much. The wealthy Europeans who explored China with this author traveled to Beijing via Aeroflot, but they might as well have accompanied Alice down the rabbit hole. China was then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and up was down and down was up, except the next day they might not be. It is a clash between not only Capitalism and Communism but between common sense and the “cult of Mao.” The author sees the humor in both points of view.
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