Becoming Madame Mao
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anchee Min
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: ISIS
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780753182369; 9780753182376
Subjects: Fiction; Spouses of heads of state; Married women; Statesmen
Description: A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.
Notes: Originally published: Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000; London: Allison & Busby, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339).