Mao
Subtitle: the man who made China
By: Philip Short
Contributors: Short, Philip
Edition: New completely revised edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 819
ISBN-13: 9781784534639
Subjects: Heads of state; Biography
Description: One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda - his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became.
Notes: Revised edition of: Mao: a life.

Includes bibliographical references and index.