The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by jung chang and her husband jon halliday. There he conducted a number of lengthy interviews with the party leader mao tsetung. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. It is close to seventy years since edgar snow, an ambitious, radical, and eager young american journalist, received word from contacts in the chinese communist. The unknown story was written by jung chang, who described the suffering of her family during the cultural revolution in the bestseller wild swans and her husband, the historian jon halliday. The accepted sense that answer is due to build a book. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million. In conducting their research for the book over the course of a. Was mao really a monster the academic response to chang. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland china where they are banned.
The unknown story with jon halliday, which was described by time as an atom bomb of a book. The most authoritative life of mao ever written, by the bestselling author of wild swans, jung chang and her husband, historian. His previous books include korea, the unknown war, which is just as silly as his mao book, though he was then in possession of a different eternal truth. Jung chang is the internationally bestselling author of wild swans. Now she and her husband jon halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of mao tsetung. Far from organizing the long march in 1934, mao was nearly left behind by his colleagues who could not stand him and had tried to oust him several times. The unknown story audiobook by jon halliday, jung chang. A short account of the geography, history, lashaundagallaway. Oct 20, 2011 powerful biography lays millions of deaths at maos feet. The unknown story kindle edition by chang, jung, halliday. The unknown story, jung chang and jon halliday estimate that under mao zedongs rule in china at least 70 million people were killed in one way or another in the name of making a socialist utopia. Taken together they demonstrate that chang and hallidays portrayal of mao is in many places woefully inaccurate.
In conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of people who were close to mao zedong at some point in his life, used recently published memoirs from. If you own the to this book and it is wrongfully on our website, we offer. The history of china s most devastating catastrophe, 19581962. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday random house hard cover rrp. The unknown story, by jung chang, jon halliday writing. The unknown story, by jung chang and jon halliday, is a fascinating and powerful debunking of the many myths that have long surrounded mao tsetung. Oct 05, 2011 jung chang is the bestselling author of wild swans, which the asian wall street journal called the most widely read book about china, and mao. Combining meticulous history with the storytelling style of wild swans, this. The unknown story isbn 9780099507376 pdf epub jung.
The theme of the unknown story of mao zedong has basically put to rest the analysis that the great helmsman mao was a peasantloving revolutionary. Delaware county district library ohio scanned in china. However, the introduction to this book suggested that this one is written after new material has come to light once the soviet and chinese archives were opened for research by scholars. In the summer of 1936, the american journalist edgar snow left peking for chinas northwest to visit the new territory taken over by the chinese communist party. It is close to seventy years since edgar snow, an ambitious, radical, and eager young american journalist, received word from contacts in the chinese communist party that he would be welcome in the communists northwest base area of baoan. It irreversibly put the modernization of china back into the hands of the professional administrators like the late premier zhou enlai and his deputy premier deng xiaoping mark starkly by deng xiaoping. The book is banned in china, because the current communist regime is fiercely perpetuating the myth of mao. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the long march, and showing a completely unknown mao. The unknown story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of maos close circle in china who have never talked before and with virtually everyone outside china who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the long march, and showing a. The unknown story ebook in epub, mobi and pdf format just make click on. Mao the unknown story download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by the husband and wife team of writer jung chang and historian. The first sentence of the acclaimed biography, mao.
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The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday someday, an incredible life and times of mao will be written. I had read stuart schrams book as well the more recent one by jung chang and jon halliday titled mao. The unknown story by jon halliday, 9780099507376, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of mao s court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao zedong, who imprisoned an entire nation for 30 years and mur. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the long march, and showing a completely. The unknown story is 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. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside.
Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of maos close circle in china who have. 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. Combining meticulous history with the story telling style of wild swans this biography makes immediate mao s rollercoaster life, as he intrigued and fought every step of the way to force through his unpopular decisions. Mao tsetung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of onequarter of the worlds population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentiethcentury. The unknown story all by internationally wellregarded specialists in modern chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Ever since the spectacular success of changs wild swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of chinas most notorious modern leader. Mao tsetung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of onequarter of the worlds population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentiethcentury leader.
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