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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.
Table of Contents
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
Chinese Views of Mao: Preface to the New Revised Edition
Prologue
1. A Confucian Childhood
2. Revolution
3. Lords of Misrule
4. A Ferment of 'Isms'
5. The Comintern Takes Charge
6. Events Leading to the Horse Day Incident and its Bloody Aftermath
7. Out of the Barrel of a Gun
8. Futian: Loss of Innocence
9. Chairman of the Republic
10. In Search of the Grey Dragon: The Long March North
11. Yan'an Interlude: The Philosopher is King
12. Paper Tigers
13. The Sorcerer's Apprentice
14. Musings on Immortality
15. Cataclysm
16. Things Fall Apart
Epilogue
Afterword
Dramatis Personae
Notes
Index
Product details
| Published | 20 Apr 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 864 |
| ISBN | 9781350376724 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 4 maps, 47pp bw integrated |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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