The feline Chairman Mao Tse-tung came into my wife Charlotte’s life—and, by extension, my own—at the very time that the all-too-human Chairman Mao Tse-tung was approaching the point of departing from his.
China was still in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, a political cataclysm that had turned Chinese society on its head, destroying great . . . → Read More: Chairman Mao Tse-tung: A case mistaken identity