Mao: A Life
Philip Short
Short's masterful assessment--informed by secret documents recently found in China--provides an up-close look at Mao Tse-tung, the colossal figure whose shadow will dominate into the 21st century.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Year
- 2001
- ISBN-13
- 9780805066388
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Mao ZedongChinese Communist Party20th century China
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for BiographyShortlisted(2000)
If you liked Mao: A Life, you could also like these
Mao and China: From Revolution to Revolution
Stanley Karnow
0 wins · 4 score
Maoism: A Global History
Julia Lovell
1 win · 12 score
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962
Frank Dikötter
1 win · 12 score
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
Jonathan Sperber
0 wins · 4 score
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
Victor Sebestyen
0 wins · 2 score
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Evan Osnos
1 win · 16 score
The Life of Lenin
Louis Fischer
1 win · 12 score
China Men
Maxine Hong Kingston
1 win · 20 score
Gorbachev: His Life and Times
William Taubman
0 wins · 2 score
At the Edge of Empire
Edward Wong
0 wins · 3 score
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination
Robert Bickers
1 win · 8 score
Richard Nixon: The Life
John A. Farrell
1 win · 14 score
Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928
Stephen Kotkin
0 wins · 7 score
Pessoa: A Biography
Richard Zenith
0 wins · 5 score
Solzhenitsyn: A Biography
Michael Scammell
1 win · 8 score