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Articles marked Andrew NathanAndrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia. He co-edited The Tiananmen Papers and is the author, with Bruce Gilley, of China’s New Rulers. From the London Review dated 17 November 2005Jade and Plastic
Mao Zedong’s long, wicked life has generated some lengthy biographies in English. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s is the longest, having overtaken Philip Short’s Mao (1999) and Li Zhisui’s The Private Life of Chairman Mao (1995). It represents an extraordinary research effort. The authors have been working on the project since at least 1986, to judge by the date of the earliest interview cited, which – and this is typical of the access they gained to many highly-placed and interesting people – was with Milovan Djilas. They have visited remote battle sites of the Long March, Mao’s cave in Yan’an, ‘over two dozen’ of Mao’s secret private villas around the country, the Russian presidential and foreign ministry archives, and other archives in Albania, Bulgaria, London and Washington DC. They even tried – and failed – to get access to the Chinese war memorial in Pyongyang. [ read more . . . ] Selected bibliography
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