Mao: The Man Who Made China - Paperback
by Philip Short
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350376724ISBN-10:1350376728UPC:9781350376724Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, Historical, PoliticalBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 2.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCHFNTPVW6
Mao: The Man Who Made China
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...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350376724ISBN-10:1350376728UPC:9781350376724Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, Historical, PoliticalBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 2.10 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SCHFNTPVW6
Philip Short was for thirty years a foreign correspondent for the BBC, based in Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. He lived and worked in China for two decades in the 1970s and 1980s, and has returned regularly to the country ever since. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Mitterrand (A Study in Ambiguity, Random House, 2013) and Pol Pot (Anatomy of a Nightmare, Henry Holt,...
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