Mao : the man who made China / Philip Short.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Short, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.
• Heads of state--China--Biography.
• Heads of state.
• China.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxxv, 819 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

New completely revised edition.

Place of Publication:

London : I B Tauris & Co Ltd ; 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

• 1 A Confucian Childhood 17
• 2 Revolution 35
• 3 Lords of Misrule 47
• 4 A ferment of 'Isms' 74
• 5 The Comintern Takes Charge 107
• 6 Events Leading to the Horse Day Incident and its Bloody Aftermath 174
• 7 Out of the Barrel of a Gun 190
• 8 Futian: Loss of Innocence 255
• 9 Chairman of the Republic 274
• 10 In Search of the Grey Dragon: The Long March North 304
• 11 Yan'an Interlude: The Philosopher is King 338
• 12 Paper Tigers 402
• 13 The Sorcerer's Apprentice 433
• 14 Musings on Immortality 502
• 15 Cataclysm 523
• 16 Things Fall Apart 583.

Notes:

Revised edition of Mao: a life.

ISBN:

• 9781784534639
• 1784534633

OCLC:

936003177