Mao
Subtitle: a life
By: Philip Short.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Henry Holt
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 782
ISBN-13: 9780805031157
Subjects: Historical - General; Political; China - History - 20th Century; History; Biography / Autobiography; Mao, Zedong,; Biography/Autobiography; Heads of state; Asia - China; Biography & Autobiography / Political; Biography; 1893-1976; China; Mao, Tse-tung
First sentence: In winter, in Hunan, the wind howls bone-cold across bare fields of dry yellow earth, kicking up the dust so that it stings the eyes of the horses and makes men squint as they lean into the frozen air, their faces like leather masks.
Notes: "A John Macrae book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.