Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story"
Gregor Bentonis Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff University. His bookMountain Fires: The Red Army’s Three-Year War in South China, 1934-1938won several awards, including the Association of Asian Studies’ best book on modern China. Recent work includesChinese Migrants and Internationalism: Forgotten Histories, 1917-1945;Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution(also published by Routledge)Lin Chunis Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics, UK. She is the author of a number of books, of which the most recent isThe Transformation of Chinese Socialism.