Mao
The Man Who Made China
London : I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: New completely revised edition.
Description: xxxv, 819 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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.
ISBN:
9781784534639
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Mao, Zedong | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Revised edition of Mao: a life.