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Remembering Chairman Mao

09/09/2014

BBC World Service - Witness History, Remembering Chairman Mao

Chinese leader Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. Sidney Rittenberg knew him well.

Series looking at key events in history. Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong died on 9 September 1976. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s.

The Chinese leader Mao Zedong died on September 9th 1976. American Sidney Rittenberg first met him in the 1940s and he spent half a century living in communist China. Hear his memories of one of the world's great revolutionaries.

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