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Article: MADE IN CHINA.(Review)
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- March 10, 2000
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Tears of Blood
A Cry for Tibet
Mary Craig
Counterpoint, $26, 341 pp.
There has been no shortage, in our century, of genocidal regimes that slaughter people by the millions. But Communist China must be unique in at least this regard: In Tibet, after they've killed you, they charge your family for the price of the bullet.
Just about every imaginable barbarism of war or peace has been perpetrated in the fifty years of the Chinese occupation. Tears of Blood is an account of what has happened and is happening in Tibet, but its landscape could have come straight out of Dante or Hieronymus Bosch.
Communist officials gouge out a man's eyes and throw ...