num_pages: 320
description: A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching, one of the most vilified women of the century, follows the life of Madame Mao, from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her romance and marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China. By the author of Red Azalea. 35,000 first printing.
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: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt