Mao : the man who made China / Philip Short.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Short, Philip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976.

Mao, Zedong.

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