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World Service,01 Oct 2013,9 mins

Mao's American Comrade

Witness History

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Mao declares the formation of the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949. We hear from an American who helped to plan the revolution in the caves of Yan'an. Sidney Rittenberg remembers what the early days of communist rule were like in China.

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