Jon Halliday, Jung Chang

Broschiertes Buch

Mao

The Unknown Story

Beschreibung

Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book is the story of the life of Mao. It is full of revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing completely unknown Mao.

Autor

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991. Jon Halliday is a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College, University of London. He has written or edited eight previous books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage, London
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 596865
• Seitenzahl: 971
• Erscheinungstermin: Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 130mm x 48mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780099507376
• ISBN-10: 0099507374
• Artikelnr.: 22407901

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