China is changing. There are many things about China which Westerners never knew before the opening of China during the diplomacy of Henry Kissinger. There was greater hardship, more violent control of counter-revolutionaries and greater control of independent thought than outsiders imagined.

This book shows how a revolutionary force can take control of a nation and can keep it in thrall and subjugation. Through fear, intimidation, and control of the economic and food supplies a force can keep the people enslaved. This raises many questions.

How could this happen? How could it continue, and could it happen an industrialized country like the United States?