Throughout my time in China I heard all this stuff about Chairman Mao and I had no idea who he really was or what he did... China is still a communist country although things are changing very slowly. No one will ever give you a true opinion or even facts on Chairman Mao due to the continued regime and fear of the past coming back! So having left China still without a clue, I've become really interested in what he did and how China went from being the most advanced and sophisticated nation to a nation closed off from the world and with all sorts of problems...
Now i think I'm geting a really good idea what went on there, and it´s not altogether pretty!!
One Book I´ve read is Wild Swans, this really is an open account of the whole Mao era told by the first person. It tells the stories of 3 womens lives throughout this time, and was written in england which is important as any book written in China gets massively censored even still today...
I hope you read this book and see what amazing things happened in these peoples lives!!!
I also have made a small gallery of some of my travels in China, I´m hoping to add loads more photos and crazy crazy stories soon though!!
