Audiofreak written by jung chang, jon halliday format. Nov 14, 2006 jung chang is the bestselling author of wild swans, which the asian wall street journal called the most widely read book about china, and mao. 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. Jung changs wild swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than. The story is a key aspect of 20th century history, but is not well known in the west. Was mao really a monster the academic response to chang. The unknown story ebook written by jung chang, jon halliday.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by the husbandandwife team of writers jung chang and historian jon halliday, who depict mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than adolf hitler or joseph stalin. The unknown story by jung chang, jon halliday books. The unknown story, jung chang and jon halliday estimate that under mao zedongs rule in china at least 70 million people were killed in one way or another in the name of making a socialist utopia. Due to its large file size, this book may take longer to download. Maybe this is just the wrong book for me but the right book for history. Now she and her husband jon halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of mao tsetung. Jung chang is the internationally bestselling author of wild swans. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of. Nathan, columbia university from 1954 until mao zedongs death twentytwo years later, dr. Ever since the spectacular success of changs wild swans we have waited. The unknown story by jung chang penguin books australia. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. The most authoritative life of the chinese leader every written, mao.
Li zhisui was the chinese rulers personal physician, which put him in dailyand increasingly intimatecontact with mao and his inner circle. Pdf free mao the unknown story jung chang jon halliday books. 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 written. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regarding mao s attitude toward women, jung chang a woman goes for it. The unknown story by jung chang, jon halliday alibris.
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Sep 01, 2009 jung chang is the internationally bestselling author of wild swans. Sep 30, 2012 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 written. Mao s legions of fans have included such luminaries as. Combining meticulous research with the story telling style of wild swans, this biography offers a harrowing portrait of mao s ruthless accumulation of power through the exercise of terror. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of mao s close. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mao. Overall the book is less the unknown story promised by the subtitle than a known story distilled into a polemic. Jung chang and jon halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about mao. The first edition of the novel was published in september 26th 20, and was written by jung chang. This awesome book ready for download, you can get this book now for free. Vi, number 3 summer jung chang, who is of chinese origin, and jon halliday, her british husband, offer plenty of passion and detail in their unremittingly negative but engrossing portrait of mao tsetung.
Nov 14, 2006 a biography of of mao zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The unknown story by jung chang, jon halliday books on. The reader will be dazzled by his political maneuvering. 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 englishlanguage student and, later, an assistant lecturer at sichuan university.
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The unknown story by jung chang, jon halliday, paperback. Sep 01, 2002 jung chang wrote a beautiful story in wild swans, the biograpy of her own family through the mao era, but this biography she has written of mao zedong is flawed in that she clearly lets her overwhelming hatred for what her family went through keep her from being an objective biographer. The unknown story audiobook by jon halliday, jung chang with a 30 day free trial. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream. Jung chang and jon halliday have not, in the whole of their. The unknown story foundation for economic education. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the long march, and showing a. Read download mao the unknown story pdf pdf download. The unknown story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of. Jung chang, lynn pan and henry zhao edited by jessie lim and li yan, another province. The author of wild swans and her historian husband, jon halliday, have torn away the many masks and falsehoods with which. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and ios and android.
Jung chang s wild swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about china. The most revealing book ever published on mao, perhaps on any dictator in history. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday was published in 2005 to a great. Oct 21, 2005 mao tsetung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of onequarter of the worlds population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentiethcentury leader, write chinaborn memoirist chang wild swans, 1991 and british historian halliday in their provocative opening. Jung chang is the bestselling author of wild swans, which the asian wall street journal called the most widely read book about china, and mao. The problem with this book is that it is an 800page polemic, along the lines of christopher hitchens th. The unknown story jung chang, jon halliday audiobook. The unknown story is 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.
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