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'Maoism took root in very diverse places and moments due to its multi-faceted, contradictory and malleable nature'

'Mao's Fraught Legacy' (7/7). Julia Lovell, a Chinese history and literature professor at Birkbeck, University of London, discusses how Maoism spread. The ideology, she says, benefited from the broader decolonization era, with Mao seen as the foremost anti-imperialist figure.

'Maoism took root in very diverse places and moments due to its multi-faceted, contradictory and malleable nature'

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News in Easy English: Tokyo business area, office workers, keep cool in mini-forests

TOKYO -- People often call Tokyo's business areas "concrete jungles." They have many roads and tall buildings. These can make the city hotter. This is

  • Otemachi Tower in Tokyo features 200 trees creating a mini-forest.
  • Temperature in the forest was 32.5°C at noon, 3.9°C cooler than nearby crossing.
  • Company estimates forest care costs twice as much as conventional open space maintenance.

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