BookBrowse Reviews Mao by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

Name: Mao
Rating: 4.4 (11 reviews)
Author: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
ISBN: 9780679422716

Mao

The Unknown Story

by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

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First Published:
Oct 18, 2005, 832 pages

Paperback:
Nov 2006, 864 pages

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- Biography & Memoir
- History, Current Affairs and Religion
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- Asia
- China
- 20th Century (multiple decades)
- Asian Authors
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An entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike. Biography

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