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 de...

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1. Verfasser: Short, Philip 1945- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York I.B. Tauris 2017
Ausgabe:New completely revised edition
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Zusammenfassung: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
Beschreibung:Revised edition of Mao: a life
Beschreibung:xxxv, 819 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 22 cm
ISBN:9781784534639
1784534633

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