After publication, the author noted that the reference to scholars having investigated Mao’s totalitarianism (p. 1) should have included an explicit quotation in reference to Teiwes and Sun (p. 199). With editorial approval, quotation marks have been added to ‘totalitarianism’, and the reference footnote 1 has been reordered and amended to denote this quotation.

Previously footnote 1 stated:

1 See, for example, Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts (New York: Henry Holt, 1998); Alfred L. Chan, Mao’s Crusade (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001); Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun (eds), China’s Road to Disaster (London and New York: Routledge, 2016).

Footnote 1 now states:

1 Frederick C. Teiwes and Warren Sun (eds), China’s Road to Disaster (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), p. 199. See also Jasper Becker, Hungry Ghosts (New York: Henry Holt, 1998); Alfred L. Chan, Mao’s Crusade (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001).

The author also reported that this work was primarily undertaken at and supported by the University of Macau. The previous affiliation (School of Foreign Studies, Tongji University, Shanghai, China) has now been to updated (Department of English, University of Macau) to align with the publisher’s affiliations policy.