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Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes: The Tangshan Earthquake... |
When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. An acclaimed historian tells the startling story of the most tumultuous year in modern Chinese history, when Mao perished, a city crumbled, and a new China was born.
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| | ix | | | Introduction | | 1 | | | 1 Who will protect us now? |
| | 5 | | | | 43 | | | | 71 | | | 4 Four hundred Hiroshimas |
| | 114 | | | | 144 | | | | 173 | | | | 211 | | | Acknowledgements | | 250 | | | Notes | | 253 | | | Bibliography | | 261 | | | Index | | 265 | |
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| I più venduti: History - Asia - China |
| I più venduti: Nature - Earthquakes & Volcanoes |
| I più venduti: Nature - Natural Disasters |
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