Author: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Translator: Oh, Lee, Hwang
Publisher: Kkachi
2-volume set | 223*152mm
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About This Book
Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited
impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of
China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would
rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation
justified. This is a bombshell of a book.”
–Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, in The Times (London)
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 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.
Combining meticulous research with the story-telling style of Wild Swans, this
biography offers a harrowing portrait of Mao’s ruthless accumulation of power
through the exercise of terror: his first victims were the peasants, then the
intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The reader
enters the shadowy chambers of Mao’s court and eavesdrops on the drama in its
hidden recesses. Mao’s character and the enormity of his behavior toward his
wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time.
This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will
astonish historians and the general reader alike.
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