LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS — The China Puzzle

Washington, D. C.: League of Women Voters of the United States, 1967. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Stapled wraps. This is a trade sized booklet with cardstock covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. Ther spine ends and corners of the booklet have some light bumping and wear. There is an inkstamp from the "League of Women Voters of Oakland, CA" on the top edge of the front cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong’s bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party. Its bewildering complexity and almost unfathomable brutality was such that to this day historians struggle to make sense of everything that occurred during the period. However, Mao’s decision to launch the “revolution” in May 1966 is now widely interpreted as an attempt to destroy his enemies by unleashing the people on the party and urging them to purify its ranks." (from The Guardian, Tue 10 May 2016 ). Very Good .