Mao: The Man Who Made China Contributor(s): Short, Philip (Author) |
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ISBN: 1784534633 ISBN-13: 9781784534639 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $24.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Political - History | Asia - China |
Dewey: 951.050 |
Physical Information: 2.3" H x 5.3" W x 8.5" (1.5 lbs) 864 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Chinese - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Short, Philip: - Philip Short is the author of several books, among them the definitive biographies Mao: A Life and Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Times (London), The Economist, and the BBC in Uganda, Moscow, China, and Washington, D.C. |