damn i bet they have some cool history books over there that're not translated into english. i want to hear hot chinese takes on the soviet union, stalin, brezhnev etc.
damn i bet they have some cool history books over there that're not translated into english. i want to hear hot chinese takes on the soviet union, stalin, brezhnev etc.
Yes, exactly. Not only was he a great writer (worth reading on purely literary grounds) he also accurately predicted many of the pitfalls that the left in China would face. The lessons he drew from the Xinhai revolution are useful to understanding the failure of Chinese communism (and a hell of a lot more well written them most texts in that line).