Mao : the man who made China /
One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader and a man responsible for more civilian dea...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
I. B. Tauris & Co., Ltd.,
2017.
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| Edition: | New completely revised edition. |
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| Summary: | One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda, his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became. |
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| Physical Description: | 819 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781784534639 1784534633 |