Mao
The Man Who Made China - New Completely Revised Edition
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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 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.
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Mao, Philip Short
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- Released
- 2023
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- (Paperback),
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- Title
- Mao
- Subtitle
- The Man Who Made China - New Completely Revised Edition
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Philip Short
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Released
- 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 864
- ISBN10
- 1350376728
- ISBN13
- 9781350376724
- Series
- Tags
- Historical Themes, Politics, 20th century, Asia, China, Political Theories, Communism, Revolution, Nationalism, Diplomacy, Imperialism, Taiwan, Maoism
- 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.