2004, ISBN: 9780719566769

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Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG condition. Complete with large fold out colour map… More...

Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. VG condition. Complete with large fold out colour map and illustrated with extensive photo selection., Foreign Languages Press, 1978, 3, John Murray, London, 2004. Softcover. Good Condition. Mao Zedong was a defining figure of the twentieth century. Military strategist, statesman, fiendishly clever politician, philosopher and poet, no man has so profoundly influenced the fate of China's people since the First Emperor of Qin unified the country and built the Great Wall 2,000 years ago. The revolution engineered by Mao dragged almost a quarter of the world's people out of medieval splendour and squalor into the modern age. In this meticulously researched account, Philip Short draws on extensive interviews and on a wealth of previously secret documentary material to present for the first time a complete portrait of this bewilderingly complex and versatile leader. He traces Mao's development from idealistic student to visionary despot whose epic struggle to build a revolutionary realm of Red Virtue took the lives of more of his subjects than did any other leader in human history. Short illuminates crucial episodes in Mao's life and career which until now have been deliberately obscured.He reveals Mao's decisive role in the outbreak of the Korean war, and shows convincingly that the great political movements that followed were the logical, inevitable consequence of the deeply held ideas of a lifetime.Was Mao's life a tragic failure, imprisoned by his revolution? Or an unparalleled achievement of the human spirit, paving the way to a new Chinese golden age? 782 pages. Light tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; ISBN: 0719566762. ISBN/EAN: 9780719566769. Inventory No: 263157. . 9780719566769, John Murray, 2004, 2.5<

ISBN: 9780719566769

John Murray Publishers Ltd. Very Good. 5.04 x 7.76 x 1.65 inches. Paperback. 1855. 782 pages.<br>Mao Zedong was a defining figure of the twentieth c entury. Military strategist, sta… More...

John Murray Publishers Ltd. Very Good. 5.04 x 7.76 x 1.65 inches. Paperback. 1855. 782 pages.<br>Mao Zedong was a defining figure of the twentieth c entury. Military strategist, statesman, fiendishly clever politic ian, philosopher and poet, no man has so profoundly influenced th e fate of China's people since the First Emperor of Qin unified t he country and built the Great Wall 2,000 years ago. The revoluti on engineered by Mao dragged almost a quarter of the world's peop le out of medieval splendour and squalor into the modern age. In this meticulously researched account, Philip Short draws on exten sive interviews and on a wealth of previously secret documentary material to present for the first time a complete portrait of thi s bewilderingly complex and versatile leader. He traces Mao's dev elopment from idealistic student to visionary despot whose epic s truggle to build a revolutionary realm of Red Virtue took the liv es of more of his subjects than did any other leader in human his tory. Short illuminates crucial episodes in Mao's life and care er which until now have been deliberately obscured. He reveals Ma o's decisive role in the outbreak of the Korean war, and shows co nvincingly that the great political movements that followed were the logical, inevitable consequence of the deeply held ideas of a lifetime. Was Mao's life a tragic failure, imprisoned by his r evolution? Or an unparalleled achievement of the human spirit, pa ving the way to a new Chinese golden age? ., John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1855, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780719566769

London: John Murray, 2004. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x7x1. Second printing. Spine creased, pages toned. 2004 Trade Paperback. xiii, 782 pp. Of the three great tyrants o… More...

London: John Murray, 2004. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x7x1. Second printing. Spine creased, pages toned. 2004 Trade Paperback. xiii, 782 pp. Of the three great tyrants of the 20th century--Hitler, Stalin, and Mao--the West generally knows the least about the latter. What we do know is that he was every bit as genocidal in his policies as either of the other two great villains of the age. In fact, in purely statistical terms, Mao might have been responsible for the deaths of more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. However, Philip Short's immense but immensely readable and impressively researched biography of the man goes far deeper than this. Yes, he acknowledges, Mao was a tyrant, but then China always has been run by tyrants; it never has had a tradition of democracy. And Mao was also an the deaths of millions was, as he saw it, the price that his country had to pay for being dragged from a state of medieval servitude--perpetually on the brink of famine--to that of a modern, industrialized, self-sufficient nation, in the space of a single lifetime. Short also humanizes Mao, and shows a man who had a profound and sincere interest in Chinese philosophy and poetry, and a surprisingly sharp sense of humor. None of this can exonerate Mao from the charge of inhumanity on an epic scale. But it does make for a much more rounded and complex portrait of the figure who, as the 21st century unfolds, might be shown to have had more influence on world history than either Hitler or Stalin., John Murray, 2004, 3<

2004, ISBN: 9780719566769

Murray, Taschenbuch, 800 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004T, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.23 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Militär, Herausragende Persönlichkeiten, Film,… More...

Murray, Taschenbuch, 800 Seiten, Publiziert: 2004T, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.23 kg, Geschichte, Biografien & Erinnerungen, Kategorien, Bücher, Militär, Herausragende Persönlichkeiten, Film, Kunst & Kultur, Asien, Geschichte nach Ländern, Politik & Geschichte, China, Moderne & Postmoderne, Epochen, Politik nach Ländern, Taschenbücher, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Englische Bücher, Murray, 2004<

ISBN: 9780719566769

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