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.

Xi Zhongxun, the father of Xi Jinping, was a high-ranking Communist official under Mao. He fell from grace but later returned ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The earliest edition of Mao Zedong's biography was discovered recently in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province. The book, written by renowned American journalist Edgar Snow, was ...