Thank you. I hope that in a better future the huge wave of anticommunist propaganda masked as serious literature produced in the last decades will be handled and studied as a case study of mystifying history. Obviously in a less favorable scenario is also possible that such crap will on the contrary become a main source for ChatGPT and the likes… VG
Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 23 gen 2024, alle ore 07:43, John Edmundson > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > > Is case anyone is curious I got this less than reassuring response from the > author, Sam Kean: > > "The bit about Mao's regime allowing incest came from a book called "Hungry > Ghost", around page 69. It's a brief reference from a doctor who worked under > the regime. But quite spooky." > > Sinologist Frederick Teiwes was strongly critical of the research and > presentation in Hungry Ghosts. He called the book "maddeningly deficient in a > number of important respects," said that Becker's "assertions are often > unsourced," and called the book's infrequent footnotes "essentially unusable". -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28593): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28593 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103732259/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
