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Maoism: A Global History. By Julia Lovell. London: Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pp. ISBN: 9781847922502 (paper).

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Maoism: A Global History. By Julia Lovell. London: Bodley Head, 2019. 606 pp. ISBN: 9781847922502 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2020

Yan Bo*
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Nanyang Technological University
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Book Reviews—Transnational and Comparative
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020

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References

1 For the resurgence of Maoism in China, see Zhao, Suisheng, “Xi Jinping's Maoist Revival,” Journal of Democracy 27, no. 3 (2016): 8397CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and The Ideological Campaign in Xi's China: Rebuilding Regime Legitimacy,” Asian Survey 56, no. 6 (2016): 1168–93CrossRefGoogle Scholar. On the revival of socialism and communism in the West, a March 2019 poll showed that the majority of American youth between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four were supportive of socialism (Trévon Austin, “New Poll Shows American Youth Are Increasingly Supportive of Socialism,” World Socialist Web Site, March 13, 2019, https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/13/yout-m13.html [accessed November 18, 2019]). Faced with such a social trend and the increasingly pro-socialist Democrats, President Trump emphasized, in his 2019 State of the Union address, that “America will never be a socialist country.”

2 Alexander, Robert J., International Maoism in the Developing World (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999)Google Scholar; Alexander, Robert J., Maoism in the Developed World (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2001)Google Scholar; Cook, Alexander C., ed., Mao's Little Red Book: A Global History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.