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31%OFFJon Halliday - Mao: The Unknown Story - 9780099507376 - V9780099507376
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Mao: The Unknown Story

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Description for Mao: The Unknown Story Paperback. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book is the story of the life of Mao. It is full of revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing completely unknown Mao. Num Pages: 992 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; HBJF; HBLW; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 736.

The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.

Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
992
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099507376
SKU
V9780099507376
Shipping Time
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About Jon Halliday
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded ... Read more

Reviews for Mao: The Unknown Story
The first great political biography of the twenty-first century
Frank Johnson
Spectator
This is a bombshell of a book... Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have done this extraordinary country a huge service with this book, which will one day be read as widely within China as it will deservedly be in the outside world
Chris Patten ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Mao: The Unknown Story


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