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Andrew Nathan: How bad was Mao?, 17 November 2005
Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
Cape, 814 pp., £25, June 2005,0 224 07126 2 Show More
by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.
Cape, 814 pp., £25, June 2005,
“... 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 ... ”