Jung Chang

Mao

The Unknown Story

Buch

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written, Mao: The Unknown Story is 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. 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 with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned, and blackmailed… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Halliday, Jon

ISBN: 978-0-679-74632-4
EAN: 9780679746324
Produktnummer: 19367166
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 864 S.
Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.9 cm x D4.8 cm 1'057 g
Gewicht: 1057

Über den Autor

Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as an atom bomb of a book. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland China, where they are both banned. She was born in China in 1952 and moved to Britain in 1978. She lives in London. Jon Halliday is a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, University of London. He has written or edited eight previous books.