'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.