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From an early coup to Peppa Pig, Michelle Obama and Harry Potter, ex-Penguin China chief
It was generally regarded as an allegorical work, and a thinly disguised criticism of the Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966-1976, a period that saw millions of people sent to work in the Chinese countryside, deprived of formal education. Jiang, …