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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=James Palmer
|title=The Death of Mao: The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Welcome to China, where the populous are busy leaving a rural country full of prosperous mineral resources and coal mines, and shoddily-built hydro-electric dams in environmentally dubious locations, for the burgeoning, mechanised cities. But this isn't the birth of 2012, it's the dawn of 1976. Chairman Mao is dying, Premier Zhou Enlai has just died, and the cauldron of power is being stirred as never before. Among the momentous events of the year however will be a huge earthquake directly centred on the city of Tangshan, which will kill something like two thirds of a million people.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571243991</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Phillip Thomas Tucker