Philip Short

Mao

The Man Who Made China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The greatest biography yet written on the man who made China

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 864
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 217mm x 138mm x 54mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781350376724
• ISBN-10: 1350376728
• Artikelnr.: 67744562

Autorenporträt

Philip Short was for thirty years a foreign correspondent for the BBC, based in Washington, Moscow, Paris, Tokyo and Beijing. He lived and worked in China for two decades in the 1970s and 1980s, and has returned regularly to the country ever since. He is the author of acclaimed biographies of Mitterrand, A Study in Ambiguity (2013) and Pol Pot, Anatomy of a Nightmare (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Note on Spelling and Pronunciation
Chinese Views of Mao: Preface to the New Revised Edition
Prologue
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
Epilogue
Afterword
Dramatis Personae
Notes
Index