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Posted on 28/11/02

Capitalism takes over Mao's hidden labyrinth

BEIJING -- Carl Crook saw his first bomb shelter in 1969 during the madness of the Cultural Revolution.He was a high-school student in Beijing, but the Red Guards had ordered him to re-educate himself by toiling in a farm-equipment factory. They imprisoned his British father as a suspected spy and placed his Canadian mother under house arrest in Beijing, forbidding her to see her children.

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