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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679422714
ISBN-139780679422716
eBay Product ID (ePID)44676582
Product Key Features
Book TitleMao : the Unknown Story
Number of Pages832 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicPresidents & Heads of State, Political, Asia / China, World / Asian
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
AuthorJung Chang, Jon Halliday
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.8 in
Item Weight43.2 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-063826
Reviews"Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life…a stupendous work and one hopes that it will be brought before the Chinese people, who still claim to venerate the man and who have yet to come to terms with their own history…" -Michael Yahuda,The Guardian "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about Mao. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, ofThe Unknown Storyprovoke another reaction. Mao Tse-Tung's evil, undoubted and well-documented, is unequalled throughout modern history." -Roy Hattersley,The Observer "Ever since the spectacular success of Chang'sWild Swanswe have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book." -Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, inThe Times "A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research." -Simon Sebag Montefiore,The Sunday Times "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao's life from many Western eyes...Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not free to speak of these things." -Max Hastings,The Sunday Telegraph "Demonstrating the same pitilessness that they judge to be Mao's most formidable weapon, they unstitch the myths that sustained him in power for forty years and that continue to underpin China's regime…I suspect that when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role." -Nicolas Shakespeare,Telegraph "The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in its horror, is the most powerful, compelling, and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will." -George Walden,Daily Mail "decisive biography…they have investigated every aspect of his personal life and career, peeling back the layers of lies, myths, and what we used to think of as facts…what Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, everything that has gone before." -Jonathan Mirsky,The Independent,Saturday "written with the same deft hand that enlivened Ms. Chang's 1991 memoir, 'Wild Swans'…" -The Economist, "Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life…a stupendous work and one hopes that it will be brought before the Chinese people, who still claim to venerate the man and who have yet to come to terms with their own history…" -Michael Yahuda, The Guardian "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about Mao. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of The Unknown Story provoke another reaction. Mao Tse-Tung's evil, undoubted and well-documented, is unequalled throughout modern history." -Roy Hattersley, The Observer "Ever since the spectacular success of Chang's Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book." -Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, in The Times "A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research." -Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Times "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao's life from many Western eyes...Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not free to speak of these things." -Max Hastings, The Sunday Telegraph "Demonstrating the same pitilessness that they judge to be Mao's most formidable weapon, they unstitch the myths that sustained him in power for forty years and that continue to underpin China's regime…I suspect that when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role." -Nicolas Shakespeare, Telegraph "The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in its horror, is the most powerful, compelling, and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will." -George Walden, Daily Mail "decisive biography…they have investigated every aspect of his personal life and career, peeling back the layers of lies, myths, and what we used to think of as facts…what Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, everything that has gone before." -Jonathan Mirsky, The Independent, Saturday "written with the same deft hand that enlivened Ms. Chang's 1991 memoir, 'Wild Swans'…" -The Economist, "Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life...a stupendous work and one hopes that it will be brought before the Chinese people, who still claim to venerate the man and who have yet to come to terms with their own history..." -Michael Yahuda, "The Guardian "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about Mao. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of "The Unknown Story provoke another reaction. Mao Tse-Tung's evil, undoubted and well-documented, is unequalled throughout modern history." -Roy Hattersley, "The Observer "Ever since the spectacular success of Chang's "Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book." -Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, in "The Times "A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research." -Simon Sebag Montefiore, "The Sunday Times "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao's life from many Western eyes...Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not freeto speak of these things." -Max Hastings, "The Sunday Telegraph "Demonstrating the same pitilessness that they judge to be Mao's most formidable weapon, they unstitch the myths that sustained him in power for forty years and that continue to underpin China's regime...I suspect that when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role." -Nicolas Shakespeare, "Telegraph "The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in its horror, is the most powerful, compelling, and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will." -George Walden, "Daily Mail "decisive biography...they have investigated every aspect of his personal life and career, peeling back the layers of lies, myths, and what we used to think of as facts...what Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, everything that has gone before." -Jonathan Mirsky, "The Independent, Saturday "written with the same deft hand that enlivened Ms. Chang's 1991 memoir, 'Wild Swans'..." -"The Economist
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal951.05092 B
Table Of ContentList of Maps Abbreviations and a Note About Spelling in the Text PART ONE-Lukewarm Believer 1. On the Cusp from Ancient to Modern(18931911; age 117) 2. Becoming a Communist(191120; age 1726) 3. Lukewarm Believer(192025; age 2631) 4. Rise and Demise in the Nationalist Party (192527; age 3133) PART TWO-Long March to Supremacy in the Party 5. Hijacking a Red Force and Taking Over Bandit Land(192728; age 3334) 6. Subjugating the Red Army Supremo(192830; age 3436) 7. Takeover Leads to Death of Second Wife(192730; age 3336) 8. Bloody Purge Paves the Way for "Chairman Mao"(192931; age 3537) 9. Mao and the First Red State(193134; age 3740) 10. Troublemaker to Figurehead(193134; age 3740) 11. How Mao Got onto the Long March(193334; age 3940) 12. Long March I: Chiang Lets the Reds Go(1934; age 40) 13. Long March II: The Power Behind the Throne(193435; age 4041) 14. Long March III: Monopolising the Moscow Connection(1935; age 41) PART THREE-Building His Power Base 15. The Timely Death of Mao's Host(193536; age 4142) 16. Chiang Kai-shek Kidnapped(193536; age 4142) 17. A National Player(1936; age 4243) 18. New Image, New Life and New Wife(193738; age 4344) 19. Red Mole Triggers ChinaJapan War(193738; age 4344) 20. Fight Rivals and Chiang-Not Japan(193740; age 4346) 21. Most Desired Scenario: Stalin Carves Up China with Japan(193940; age 4546) 22. Death Trap for His Own Men(194041; age 4647) 23. Building a Power Base Through Terror(194145; age 4751) 24. Uncowed Opponent Poisoned(194145; age 4751) 25. Supreme Party Leader at Last(194245; age 4851) PART FOUR-To Conquer China 26. "Revolutionary Opium War"(193745; age 4351) 27. The Russians Are Coming!(194546; age 5152) 28. Saved by Washington(194447; age 5053) 29. Moles, Betrayals and Poor Leadership Doom Chiang(194549; age 5155) 30. China Conquered(194649; age 5255) 31. Totalitarian State, Extravagant Lifestyle(194953; age 5559) PART FIVE-Chasing a Superpower Dream 32. Rivalry with Stalin(194749; age 5355) 33. Two Tyrants Wrestle(194950; age 5556) 34. Why Mao and Stalin Started the Korean War(194950; age 5556) 35. Mao Milks the Korean War(195053; age 5659) 36. Launching the Secret Superpower Programme(195354; age 5960) 37. War on Peasants(195356; age 5962) 38. Undermining Khrushchev(195659; age 6265) 39. Killing the "Hundred Flowers"(195758; age 6364) 40. The Great Leap: "Half of Ch
SynopsisAn Asia scholar (Halliday) joins the bestselling author of "Wild Swans" to deliver a gripping and groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. of photos & maps., Inhalt: J. Rupke: Antike Groastadtreligion C. Auffarth: Feste als Medium antiker Religionen C. Batsch: Ourim et toummim: Un oracle de guerre dans le judaisme du second temple A. Zografou: L'enigme de la triple Hecate M. Sebai: La vie religieuse en Afrique Proconsulaire sous le Haut-Empire S. Crippa: Entre vocalite et ecriture C. Nasse: Zum Begriff hostia consultatoria A. V. Siebert: Romische Opfer- und Kultgerate U. Egelhaaf-Gaiser: Lebensqualitat und personlichen Religiositat des niedrigen Personals im Tempel J. Scheid: "Livres" sacerdotaux et erudition R. Stepper: Der Oberpontifikat von Caesar bis Nerva V. Sauer: Religioses als Argument im politischen Alltag der spaten romischen Republik A. Glock: Funktionen von Aitiologie: Properz 4, 2 C. Kunst: Einbeziehung des Gottlichen in den kaiserlichen Wohnraum U. Riemer: Flavius Clemens - vom romischen Konsul zum christlichen Martyrer P. Barcelo: Uberlegungen zu Constantins Entscheidung fur das Christentum "Insgesamt gehen von der Sammlung neue Impulse aus. Es bleibt zu hoffen, daa die Reihe auch in der Zukunft mit der gleichen Flexibilitat zu arbeiten vermag und nicht als 'noch eine Zeitschrift mehr' Sparmaanahmen im Bibliothekenbereich zum Opfer fallt." Arctos . (Franz Steiner 1999), "Ever since the spectacular success of Chang's "Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book." -Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, in "The Times (London) 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-this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule-in peacetime. Combining meticulous research with the story-telling style of "Wild Swans, this biography offers a harrowing portrait of Mao's ruthless accumulation of power through the exercise of terror: his first victims were the peasants, then the intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court and eavesdrops on the drama in its hiddenrecesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behavior toward his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike., "Ever since the spectacular success of Chang'sWild Swanswe have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book." Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, inThe Times(London) Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked beforeand with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with himthis is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rulein peacetime. Combining meticulous research with the story-telling style ofWild Swans, this biography offers a harrowing portrait of Mao's ruthless accumulation of power through the exercise of terror: his first victims were the peasants, then the intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behavior toward his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.
LC Classification NumberDS778.M3C38 2005
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- May 30, 2017
PRESENT TO AN INTERESTED FRIEND
I am pleased to have received this title in the context of my travels in China as an English Teacher. I bought it as part of Jung Chang's main trilogy and gave the three books as a birthday gift to a friend. The review and interest in this topic has been indicative of some worthwhile reading material that tells a lot about hidden features of China's history.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Dec 16, 2022
What an account about a psychopath!
Some readers might be stunned to find out in this book how an individual was able to send tens of millions of his own countrymen to their deaths and was not even held accountable for a single one of them. Majority of them died agonizing deaths from hunger. I recommend this book and others similar written by those who were close to this demon.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Apr 15, 2020
Good book at good price
Very revealing book at good price. Highly recommended dealer.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- Jan 05, 2021
Great book
GreatVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
