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King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da
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King Lear and Mao’s China, with Nan Z. Da

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What can King Lear teach us about power today? Nan Z. Da shares how Shakespeare’s play echoes her family’s experience in Maoist China, how Shakespeare anticipates authoritarianism, and why Lear may be Shakespeare’s most “Chinese” play.