China: Triumph And Turmoil
MAO Zedong may have killed more of his own people than Hitler and Stalin combined but he is revered in China.
Niall Ferguson travels to rural backwaters (above) and the city of Chongqing to meet survivors of the Chairman’s madness.
He also meets China’s newly-minted billionaires and tries to unravel the fact that it was Mao’s communist machine that made possible today’s capitalist miracle.