Period. In china he was born with a feudal empire which hasnt really changed for 2000 years. When he left, when he died it was a major power. A member of the u. N. Security council with satellites, with Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles and nuclear weapons. Cspan how long have you spent in china . Guest i first went to china 90 and 77. I open their office and then i have been back for periods of up to a couple of months pretty regularly. Almost every year for the last decade or so, less often in the previous 10 years. Cspan this is a big low, close to 800 pages. Guest its not supposed to seem like that. Cspan is their new material in there . Guest oh yeah three of the is there has not been a new tiger field mouse for 20 years. The last one, the last major biography was in 1980 and over the last 20 years, so much has emerged. Facts, documents, memoirs by people who were around mao. Huge areas which we didnt really understand our winter stood wrongly are now much more clear. Its possib