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Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes : The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China
by Palmer, James
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 046501478X
- ISBN 13
- 9780465014781
- Seller
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post falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
New York: Basic Books. As New/Near Fine. 2012. First Edition. Cloth Hardback. 046501478x 273pp including bibliography and index Photographs Details the historic magnitude earchquake that leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in 1976, killing over a half-millllllion peope. That same year Mao Zedong and his two top statesmen died and the Cultural Revolution came to an end. Dust jacket has a small scuff mark on front cover of dust jacket, otherwise jacket is AS NEW .
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- Bookseller
- First Choice Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 80006
- Title
- Heaven Cracks, Earth Shakes : The Tangshan Earthquake and the Death of Mao's China
- Author
- Palmer, James
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Hardback
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 046501478X
- ISBN 13
- 9780465014781
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- China, Tangshan, Earthquake, History, Mao, Zedong, Enlai, Zhou, Gang, of, Four, Political, Science, Natural, Disasters
- Bookseller catalogs
- Political Science;
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