Showing Murderers in Mausoleums by Jeffrey Tayler

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2009 Pages: 320 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Across the largest landmass on Earth in regions once conquered by Genghis Khan and Exploited by ruthless Communist Regimes. Dictatorial states are again ARISING Growing Wealthy on petro-dollars and low-cost manufacturing. More and more they are challenging the West. Media reports focus on the capital cities of Moscow and Beijing. but the people inhabiting the expanses between them remain largely invisible to us. their daily lives and aspirations scarcely more familiar than they were in Cold War days. Tayler finds. for examples. a dissident Cossack advocating mass beheadings. a Muslim in Kashgar calling on the United States to bomb Beijing. and Chinese youths in Urumqi desiring nothing more than sex. booze. and rock n ' roll. Again and again. Tayler encounters people who value liberty and the free marke...