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AI Summary
- Jung Chang lived through China's Cultural Revolution as daughter of a denounced official; witnessed CCP totalitarianism subjugating a billion people through systematic persecution
- Mao's Great Leap Forward killed 40 million people through starvation as he exchanged food for Soviet weapons; yet the CCP continues venerating him despite being history's largest mass murderer
- Chinese leaders like Xi and Deng experienced Cultural Revolution horrors but don't condemn Mao due to ideological commitment to CCP legitimacy; Wild Swans documents three generations of women through these catastrophes