Full name: Mao: The Unknown Story

Authors: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Politics Culture: China Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads LibraryThing Amazon ISBNs: 9780679746324 0679746323

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 to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule -- in peacetime. Similar books: Mao Zedong by Jonathan D. Spence Mao by Philip Short The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Zhisui Li Zhou Enlai by Gao Wenqian Dragon Lady by Sterling Seagrave Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester The White-Boned Demon by Ross Terrill Love and Capital by Mary Gabriel Red Star over China by Edgar Snow The Generalissimo by Jay Taylor Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikotter Return to Dragon Mountain by Jonathan D. Spence The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikotter Patriot Number One by Lauren Hilgers America the Beautiful by Ben Carson King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild Fear by Bob Woodward Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne