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AFTER MA0
American scholars analyzini contemporasy events in Commiinist China prior to its post-Ma0 "opening" to the West in 1777 had to rely largely on the official press. This did not deter some of them from hailing Mao's Cultural Revoliition during the 1760s and pooh- poohing refugees' grim accoiints. Indeed, the American Academy of Political Science held a 1772 meeting to consider (among other things) how the Cultural Revol~ition co~ild serve as a model for the West in...