Phantom feathers represent the sparrows killed in Mao’s 1958 eradication campaign, a man-made omen of famine. Turn the page, and petals from Mao’s Hundred Flowers Campaign turn into the heads and ...

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What seems different about 21st-century English is the speed with which these changes spread and are adopted—at least ...