The Life of Mao 9781612308692

Everyone who came in close contact with Mao was taken aback at the anarchy of his personal ways. He ate idiosyncraticall

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The Life of Mao
9781612308692

“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbi

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From humble origins in the provinces, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn

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La China de hoy es una sociedad aparentemente contradictoria: parece conjugar una forma extrema de occidentalización con

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The author investigates the internal logic and evolution of Mao's theory in terms of various themes. Beginning with

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The author investigates the internal logic and evolution of Mao's theory in terms of various themes. Beginning with

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This major new biography of Mao uses extensive Russian documents previously unavailable to biographers to reveal surpris

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Rethinking Mao offers an innovative perspective on the thought of Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolut

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Pquot; In this succinct and vigorous book, Frank Dikouml;tter presents a cornucopia of graphic examples to show that Chi

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Jie Li traces the creation, preservation, and elision of memories about China's Mao era by envisioning a virtual mu

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A thoroughly researched assessment of how China’s economic success continues to be shaped by the communist ideology of C

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