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Mao Zedong biography paints hair-raising portrait . “It is better to let half the people die so that the other half can eat their fill,” Mao said during the famine provoked by his Great Leap ...
A brief Mao Zedong biography. Born in 1893 into a rich peasant family, Mao Zedong moved to the Chinese capital in 1918 to become a poorly paid assistant in the university library.
Mao Zedong: A Biography. Vol. 1, 1893– 1949 Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan January/February 2021 Published on December 8, 2020. In This Review. Mao Zedong: A Biography. Vol. 1, 1893– 1949 By Pang ...
A new book paints Mao as a monster on par with Hitler and Stalin and challenges almost every part of the conventional biography. Mao Tse-Tung (also written Zedong) led the Communist Party of China ...
The publishing of that book together with Biography of Mao Zedong (1893-1949) put an end to the fact that the Chinese could only read biographies written by foreigners.
Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's biography of Mao Zedong called "MAO: The Untold Story" is an important book in ways not envisaged by most biographies. Chang's first book, "Wild Swans: Three ...
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday talked about their book [Mao: The Unknown Story], published by Knopf. Their biography attempted to dispel myths about Mao Tse-tung perpetuated by the Communist Party ...
Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...