Liberal revisionist, fervently antimao jung chang and jon halliday are married historians who have written several significant works on 20th century china. From the outset, chang and halliday are determined to shatter the myth of mao, and they succeed with the force, not just of moral outrage, but of facts. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of the unknown story provoke another reaction. The unknown story kindle edition by chang, jung, halliday, jon. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. Jung chang, jon halliday, robertson dean, books on tape.
Jung chang, author of the awardwinning wild swans, grew up during the cultural revolution. Jonathan spence is always worth reading on matters chinese. 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. The unknown story jung chang author, jon halliday author, robertson dean narrator start your free trial. Jung chang and jon hallliday have excelled themselves with this captivating book about mao which is another book that i found difficult to put down. Halliday, jon, isbn 0679746323, isbn 9780679746324, brand new, free shipping in the us a portrait of the late chinese leader refutes a wide variety of myths about mao and provides facts about the long march, his relationship with stalin, and the impact of his thirst for power on the chinese people.
If chairman mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in sichuan province named jung chang and mie jiuzu killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. 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. Mao, jung halliday chang shop online for books in thailand. The unknown story by jung chang, jon halliday books. Chang and her husband, irish historian jon halliday, later collaborated on the 2005 book mao. In their book, chairman mao was a largescale murderer during a chinese peace era. Together the pair researched and wrote chang s second book mao.
Jung changs 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. Chang s 2005 work, a biography of mao, was coauthored with her husband jon halliday and portrays mao in an extremely negative light. Wild swans by jung chang life and death in shanghai by nien cheng mao by jung. They had access to soviet archives that shed new light on maos rise to and ruthless exercise of power. During the first week of june 1966, pupils from a middle school in beijing felt suddenly impelled to declare. Now she and her husband jon halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of mao tsetung. 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. In the epilogue to her biography of mao tsetung, jung chang and her husband and cowriter jon halliday lament that, today, mao s portrait and his corpse still. 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. They both gave fascinating speeches about 20th centurys china and mao s regime, but jung chang was the. The khan dynasty and the mao indulgency are the yang and the yin of the hard to see thing that differentiates china, chinese culture, and most modern chinese from the rest of the world. London was also where chang got together with irish historian jon halliday originally from dundalk. The result is a book, more indictment than portrait, that paints mao as a brutal totalitarian, a thug, who unleashed stalinlike purges of millions with relish and without compunction, all for his personal gain. In the epilogue to her biography of mao tsetung, jung chang and her husband a. It is the first time to portray chairman mao as a bloody massmurderer.
It is written in one of the easiest reading styles i have ever encountered. Chang herself is of chinese origins, born in sichuan province to prominent chinese communist party members. This massive biography of chairman mao will alter how both laymen and specialists think about the founder of communist. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday 832pp, cape.
Now she and her husband jon halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of mao. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mao. No wonder the chinese government has banned not only this book but issues. This text was scathing in its condemnation of the mao, attacking his leadership, personal conduct and indifference to the suffering of ordinary chinese. 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. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million. 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. The most authoritative life of the chinese leader every written, mao. The couple traveled all over the world to research the book, which took 12 years to write. Anyone who reads jung chang and jon hallidays book should be. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of maos 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.
But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of the unknown story. The author of wild swans and her historian husband, jon halliday, have torn away the many masks and falsehoods with which. Jung chang outside mao s official residence in yenan. 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. Jung chang and jon halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about mao.
If chairman mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in sichuan province named jung chang and. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland china, where. Chang, jung, halliday, jon, mao, zedong a portrait of the late chinese leader refutes a wide variety of myths about mao and provides facts about the long march, his relationship with stalin, and the impact of his thirst for power on the chinese people. Jung chang and jon halliday came to tel aviv university in israel for the launch of the hebrew version of mao the unknown story. The unknown story, by jung chang and jon halliday, is a fascinating and powerful debunking of the many myths that have long surrounded mao tsetung. The unknown story, jung chang and jon halliday invariably, and with absolute justification, refer to the cultural revolution as the great purge. Halliday is a research fellow at kings college, university of london. Jung chang and jon halliday have revealed mao as one of the 20th. The unknown story with jon halliday, which was described by time as an atom bomb of a book.
They interviewed hundreds of people who had known mao, including george bush, sr. The problem with this book is that it is an 800page polemic, along the lines of. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday 2005, hardcover at the best online prices at. They join forces in this sweeping but flawed biography, which aims to uncover mao s further cruelties beyond those commonly known by debunking claims made by the communist party in. Chang wrote this biography to debunk the myth of mao as an emblem of chinese.
The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by the wife and husband team of writer jung chang and historian jon halliday, who depict mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than adolf hitler or joseph stalin. Im allowed to visit china for two weeks each year but i. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday random house hard cover rrp. The unknown story by jung chang and jon halliday jonathan cape. Americans for example are incapable of this degree. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Authors jung chang and jon halliday have done an extraordinary job of compiling a wealth of information. Voor hun vuistdikke biografie van mao zedong 18931976 hebben jung chang bekend van wilde zwanen en haar man jon halliday honderden.
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