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    <body><![CDATA[This book is powerful for me because it happened to a girl my age who was born in China.  I wonder if I could have been as strong as she was.  Chairman Mao had them all fooled, and I wonder when (not if) it will happen again.  I read &quot;The Children's Story, &quot; by James Michner to my class to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34540645">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book about the Cultural Revolution.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Very informative about what the cultural revolution was about. Showed some things that happened to people and what they suffered. I thought it was interesting how Mao Ze-Dong was able to brain wash an entire nation.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book for a beginning understanding of China’s Cultural Revolution. It is a powerful example of how freedoms can be taken so gradually that people are not even aware of the fact they are gone. It is the true account of one girl's struggle with choosing between her family and the thi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32086575">more...</a>]]></body>
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