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Mao: The Man Who Made China
Contributor(s): Short, Philip (Author)
ISBN: 1784534633     ISBN-13: 9781784534639
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
OUR PRICE:   $24.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 2017
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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.