num_pages: 336
description: This is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe, became an actress in Shanghai, and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan.
language: English
title: Becoming Madame Mao
titlecomplete: Becoming Madame Mao
genres: Womens, Politics, Historical, China, Novels, Asian Literature, Asia, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 4953
publisher: Allison & Busby