Posted : 2021-02-18 13:40
Updated : 2021-02-18 16:33
The portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong is seen on Tiananmen Gate, which is covered during renovation works, in Beijing, China, in this May 2019 file photo. Reuters-Yonhap China 1949 tells the story of lingering fallout of Chinese civil war on East Asia and beyond
By Kang Hyun-kyung
Graham Hutchings, author of China 1949: Year of Revolution / Courtesy of Graham HutchingsGraham Hutchings, an associate at Oxford University s China Center and honorary professor of politics and international relations at Nottingham University, revisited what happened in China about seven decades ago in his recently published book, China 1949: Year of Revolution, providing clues as to what to expect in East Asia in the foreseeable future.