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In the summer of 1936, the american journalist edgar snow left peking for chinas northwest to visit the new territory taken over by the chinese communist party. The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by jung chang and her husband jon halliday. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of maos close circle in china who have. June 04, 2005 biography the greatest dictator seventy million dead, a nation taken back to the stone age. Mao by jung chang, 9780679746324, download free ebooks, download free pdf epub ebook. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of the unknown story provoke another reaction. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland china where they are banned.

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Wild swans is, in my opinion, the better of the two. Maos admittedly dotty contribution to marxistleninist theory. Jung chang wrote a beautiful story in wild swans, the biograpy of her own family through the mao era, but this biography she has written of mao zedong is flawed in that she clearly lets her overwhelming hatred for what her family went through keep her from being an objective biographer. May 26, 2005 so what made jung chang then devote 10 years of her life to researching a hefty political biography of chairman mao. I would definitely recommend jung changs two books, wild swans and mao, the unknown story. Mao zedong, who imprisoned an entire nation for 30 years and mur. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday random house hard cover rrp. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of mao s close circle in china who have never talked before. Nov 17, 2005 mao zedongs long, wicked life has generated some lengthy biographies in english.

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