Roderick MacFarquhar on Mao Tse Tung

Title

Roderick MacFarquhar on Mao Tse Tung

Genre

Interview; Obituary

TX Date

Sep 1976

Year of production

1976

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Duration

00:07:48

Description

MP Roderick MacFarquhar on Mao Tse-Tung following his death (09/09/76). MacFarquhar’s belief that Mao was one of the greatest Chinese rulers who took China into the modern industrialised world. Discussion of the succession; China’s future relations with Russia and the USA; Mao the man. Male interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Roderick MacFarquhar

Keywords

USA; Deaths; Revolutions; Politics; USSR; China; International relations; Political leadership; Communism; Mao Tse Tung; Communist parties

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