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Gregor (Hrsg.) Benton

Was Mao Really a Monster?

The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"

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Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster - equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin - and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in the West have achieved its impact. Reviews by serious China scholars, however, tended to take a different view. Most were sharply critical, questioning its authority and the authors' methods , arguing that Chang and Halliday's book is not a work of ba… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Chun, Lin (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-134-00661-8
  • EAN: 9781134006618
  • Produktnummer: 16941714
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 561 KB

Über den Autor


Gregor Benton is Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff University. His book Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938 won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies' best book on modern China. Recent work includes Chinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917-1945; Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution (also published by Routledge) Lin Chun is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, UK. She is the author of a number of books, of which the most recent is The Transformation of Chinese Socialism.

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