Mao's Furnace - a podcast by Jeremy Snyder and Ross Snyder

Ross explores the Great Leap Forward in China under Mao Zedong, an unprecedented push for rapid industrialization that turned into utter demographic disaster. One embodiment from this effort, the backyard furnace, stands as the perfect emblem of the denial and delusion that ultimately turned the Great Leap Forward into one of history's greatest leaps backward.  File Size: 71065 kbFile Type: mp3Download File [...]

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