Mao: The Man Who Made China 1st edition by Philip Short 1786720159 9781786720153

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• ISBN 10: 1786720159
• ISBN 13: 9781786720153
• Author: Philip

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao’s death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda – his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became.

Table of contents:

1. A Confucian Childhood

2. Revolution

3. Lords of Misrule

4. A Ferment of ‘Isms’

5. The Comintern Takes Charge

6. Events Leading to the Horse Day Incident and its Bloody Aftermath

7. Out of the Barrel of a Gun

8. Futian: Loss of Innocence

9. Chairman of the Republic

10. In Search of the Grey Dragon: The Long March North

11. Yan’an Interlude: The Philosopher is King

12. Paper Tigers

13. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

14. Musings on Immortality

15. Cataclysm

16. Things Fall Apart

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