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August 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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After looking at Arunabh Ghosh's Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (great book!), it seems clear that Yang is a Maoist apologist of the first order, but I just don't have the patience to keep going.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Making It Count
A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China
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July 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
After looking at Arunabh Ghosh's Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China (great book!), it seems clear that Yang is a Maoist apologist of the first order, but I just don't have the patience to keep going.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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for a really comprehensive look, get Rob Young's excellent book - www.amazon.com/Magic-Box-Vi...
The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window
Amazon.com: The Magic Box: Viewing Britain through the Rectangular Window: 9780571284603: Young, Rob: Books
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April 7, 2025 at 4:19 AM
for a really comprehensive look, get Rob Young's excellent book - www.amazon.com/Magic-Box-Vi...
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For those wanting a legible version, click here: www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Simple Sabotage Field Manual, by Office of Strategic Services
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February 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM