it's this series https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/peoples-trilogy/109285/, by Frank Dikötter, a dutch china-bad-ologist who has previously argued that the chinese should have just accepted massive import of opium into the country because that was less bad than having imperialists not flood the country with drugs
That Mao book trilogy on the right shelf has him looking kinda thicc
it's this series https://www.thriftbooks.com/series/peoples-trilogy/109285/, by Frank Dikötter, a dutch china-bad-ologist who has previously argued that the chinese should have just accepted massive import of opium into the country because that was less bad than having imperialists not flood the country with drugs
Ugh. Why did I click on that link? My thriftbooks recommendations are going to be nothing but anti-com and fascist slop now.
OK but why does it have chibi-lookin' Mao instead of regular Mao on the spine? They have him in Pikachu proportions.
Fat Pikachu my beloved (also I loved that manga as a kid)