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Jung Chang is the author of the best-selling books Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (1991), which the Asian Wall Street Journal called the most read book about China; Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time magazine as “an atom bomb of a book”; and Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China (2013 Jung Chang's Mao has many strengths, amongst which are size, sweep, scope, and readability. A clear weakness, however, is impartiality. There is no doubt that Mao ruled in an autocratic, overly ambitious, manner, and has to his name the worst humanitarian disaster of the 20th Century, The Great Leap Forward, and the unnecessary upheaval of The Cultural Revolution. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday.Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before, and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever 2019-10-13 · J ung Chang was born in China in 1952 and came to Britain in 1978. She is the author of Wild Swans, Mao: The Unknown Story (with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday) and Empress Dowager Cixi 2021-01-31 · Historian: Jung Chang and Jon Halliday.

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But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of The Unknown Story provoke another reaction. Jung Chang's Mao has many strengths, amongst which are size, sweep, scope, and readability. A clear weakness, however, is impartiality. There is no doubt that Mao ruled in an autocratic, overly ambitious, manner, and has to his name the worst humanitarian disaster of the 20th Century, The Great Leap Forward, and the unnecessary upheaval of The Cultural Revolution.

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With Jung Chang, John Gittings, Jon Halliday, Jonathan Mirsky. New biography of Zedong Mao. The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang and her husband, historian Jon Halliday. Based on a  Podnázev, Příběh který možná neznáte.

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The main characters of this history, biography story are Mao Zedong, . Max Hastings reviews Mao: the Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Of all the follies of the 20th century's "useful idiots", popular enthusiasm for Mao Tse-tung was among the most foolish. It reached its zenith in western Left-wing circles in the 1960s and was compounded a decade later by tourists who flocked into China after the Cultural Revolution, headed by Richard Nixon and Henry "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao’s life from many Western eyes…Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not free to speak of these things."-Max Hastings, The Sunday 2013-05-23 Biography Jung Chang Biography.

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Reader, Langford, Di. Language, eng. Duration, 32 h 28 min. Publication info, Royal National Institute for the Blind. Physical description  (Mao) Chang, Jung and Jon Halliday.

There are many ways of telling that "Jung Chang and Jon Halliday enter a savage indictment drawing on a host of sources, including important Soviet ones, to blow away the miasma of deceit and ignorance which still shrouds Mao’s life from many Western eyes…Jung Chang delivers a cry of anguish on behalf of all of those in her native land who, to this day, are still not free to J ung Chang was born in China in 1952 and came to Britain in 1978.
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18 Dec 2013 The Diplomat's Justin McDonnell spoke with author Jung Chang Both Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story are still banned in China. 21 Oct 2005 Mao: The Unknown Story; Jung Chang and Jon Halliday; Alfred A. Knopf: 704 pp. , $35. 3 Dec 2012 Buy Mao: The Unknown Story from Jung Chang,Jon Halliday with 0% discount off the list price. Paper book, order now and qualify for free  6 Nov 2005 Mao: The Unknown Story.

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Häftad, 2007. Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar. Köp Mao: The Unknown Story av Jon Halliday, Jung Chang på Bokus.com. Pris: 131 kr.

Den ger en mycket kritisk bild av Mao och menar att han var en sorts psykopat. Boken har fått ett blandat mottagande, med såväl positiva [ 1 ] som negativa [ 2 ] recensioner.