Mao: A Life
by Philip Short
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Bjace One of the many books that depicts life under the cult of Mao.
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A surprisingly neutral biography of an important and yet "evil" world leader.
3433. Mao: A Life, by Philip Short (read 18 Apr 2001) This is a big book and the part covering the period from 1945 to Mao's death in 1976 was of high interest. Mao led a tumultuous life, did much evil, and China is better for his not being there any more.
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Philip Short was for thirty years a foreign correspondent for the BBC, based in Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. He lived and worked in China in the 1970s and 1980s, and has returned regularly to the country ever since. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Franois Mitterrand (4 Study in Ambiguity, 2013) and Pol Pot (History of show more a Nightmare, 2004). show less
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- Canonical title*
- Mao Tsé-Toung
- Original title
- Mao: A Life
- Original publication date
- 1999 (1e édition originale anglaise, Hodder and Stoughton, Londres) (1e é | dition originale anglaise, Hodder and Stoughton, Londres); 2005-09-07 (1e traduction et édition française ∙ Grande biographie ∙ Fayard) (1e traduction et é | dition franç | aise ∙ | Grande biographie ∙ | Fayard)
- People/Characters
- Mao Zedong
- Important places
- China
- Important events
- Chinese Revolution of 1949; Cultural Revolution; Long March
- Original language*
- Anglais (Royaume-Uni) (Royaume-Uni)
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 951.05092 — History & geography History of Asia China and adjacent areas History 1949- (People's Republic, 20th century)
- LCC
- DS778 .M3 .S548 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia China History
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- Languages
- 8 — Chinese, Czech, English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 24
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