Mao Zedong

by Jonathan Clements

Overview

Mao Zedong went from being a poor farmer's son to a revolutionary leader, a general in World War II and the ruler of the world's most populous nation. Alternately glorified and demonized, not only in the Western world, but also in the China that he once ruled, his influence persists to this day. This new biography will capitalize on new information that has recently come to light, about his private life (and his several wives), with the publication of memoirs by his doctor and former nurse, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781904950332
Publisher:	Haus Publishing
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Series:	Life&Times Series
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Clements is an author and scriptwriter whose works include An Armchair Traveller's History of the Silk Road. He has also written biographies of Kublai Khan and Empress Wu, as well as volumes on China and Japan in the Makers of the Modern World series.

Editorial Reviews

The Life & Times series from Haus Publishing is carefully researched and lavishly illustrated. Mao Zedong is a thorough biography that includes many quotes from the Chairman himself. Author Jonathan Clements has studied Chinese and written extensively on other historical figures. The text covers Mao's early life, education (shortened by his "spoilt, rebellious nature" that caused his expulsion from several schools), early political involvement, four wives, leadership of the nascent Communist Party and the Long March, the failure of farm collectivization that resulted in widespread famine, meetings with Khrushchev and Nixon, and the deaths of about 70 million Chinese to famine and oppression.

KLIATT - Janet Julian