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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. Changs 2005 work, a biography of mao, was coauthored with her husband jon halliday and portrays mao in an extremely negative light. Read mao the unknown story online, read in mobile or kindle. The most authoritative life of mao ever written, by the bestselling author of wild swans, jung chang and her husband, historian jon halliday based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of mao s close circle in china who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside china who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative life of mao ever written. Especially in history this brought before it is a shrewd thought mao ever since. An engrossing record of maos impact on china, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, jung chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members. The unknown story kindle edition by chang, jung, halliday, jon. The most authoritative life of the chinese leader every written, mao.
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In the epilogue to her biography of mao tsetung, jung chang and her husband and cowriter jon halliday lament that, today, maos portrait and his corpse still. Jung chang is the author of the bestselling books wild swans. A historia desconhecida londres, 2005, jonathan cape, isbn 0679422714. Chang and halliday document at length just how willing mao was to kill innocents for presumed crimes or mere expediency, how quick he was to concoct schemes against even such essential comrades as lin baio and chou enlaiand how willing the leaders of the world, among them richard nixon, were to bow to maos wishes. They interviewed hundreds of people who had known mao, including george bush, sr. Jung chang and jon halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about mao. Major events in the life of a revolutionary leader all terms appearing in bold are included in the glossary. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Jung chang wrote a beautiful story in wild swans, the biograpy of her own family through the mao era, but this biography she has written of mao zedong is flawed in that she clearly lets her overwhelming hatred for what her family went through keep her from being an objective biographer. Total denegation of the cultural revolution has been chinas official policy since the death of mao, and the cultural revolution has been condemned as a tenyear calamity for the chinese people.
Publication date 2006 topics mao, zedong, 18931976, heads of state. The unknown story an assessment find, read and cite. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of maos close circle in china who have never talked before. The unknown story kindle edition by jung chang, jon halliday. Jung chang, lynn pan e henry zhao editado por jessie lim e yan li, uma outra provincia. You no longer need to visit the local libraries or browse endless online catalogs to find by jung chang, jon halliday. Jung chang was no introduction that, it focused on. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland china, where they are both. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. Jung changs wild swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other. The unknown story is a biography of chinese communist leader mao of writer jung chang and historian jon halliday, who depict mao as being. The unknown story 2005, with jon halliday, which was described by time magazine as an atom bomb of a book. The book portrays mao as a monster equal to or worse than hitler and stalin and a. Jung chang the historical truth behind maos china youtube.
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