Mao by Philip Short

Mao by Philip Short

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.

Philip Short has been a foreign correspondent for The Times (London), The Economist, and the BBC in Uganda, Moscow, China, and Washington, D.C. He is the author of the definitive biography of Mao Tse-tung, and lived in China and Cambodia in the 1970s and early 1980s, where he has returned regularly ever since. He now lives in southern France with his Chinese wife.

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ISBN 13	9780805031157
ISBN 10	0805031154
Title	Mao
Author	Philip Short
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Metropolitan Books
Year published	2000-01-19
Number of pages	782
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