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Mao

The Unknown Story

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Mao

Von: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Gesprochen von: Robertson Dean
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“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book.”
–Chris Patten, the last governor of Hong Kong, in The Times (London)

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. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao’s rule–in peacetime.

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: his first victims were the peasants, then the intellectuals and, finally, the inner circle of his own advisors. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao’s court and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao’s character and the enormity of his behavior toward his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time.

This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.©2005 Jung Chang and Jon Halliday; (P)2006 Books on Tape
Asien Historisch Politik Politik & Aktivismus Politik & Regierungen Präsidenten & Staatsoberhäupter

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"Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life…a stupendous work and one hopes that it will be brought before the Chinese people, who still claim to venerate the man and who have yet to come to terms with their own history…"
-Michael Yahuda, The Guardian

"Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have not, in the whole of their narrative, a good word to say about Mao. In a normal biography, such an unequivocal denunciation would be both suspect and tedious. But the clear scholarship, and careful notes, of The Unknown Story provoke another reaction. Mao Tse-Tung's evil, undoubted and well-documented, is unequalled throughout modern history."
-Roy Hattersley, The Observer

"Ever since the spectacular success of Chang's Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China's most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and the expectation justified. This is a bombshell of a book."
-Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, in The Times

"A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research."
-Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Times

"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 Telegraph

"Demonstrating the same pitilessness that they judge to be Mao's most formidable weapon, they unstitch the myths that sustained him in power for forty years and that continue to underpin China's regime…I suspect that when China comes to terms with its past this book will have played a role."
-Nicolas Shakespeare, Telegraph

"The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in its horror, is the most powerful, compelling, and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will."
-George Walden, Daily Mail

"decisive biography…they have investigated every aspect of his personal life and career, peeling back the layers of lies, myths, and what we used to think of as facts…what Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, everything that has gone before."
-Jonathan Mirsky, The Independent, Saturday

"written with the same deft hand that enlivened Ms. Chang's 1991 memoir, 'Wild Swans'…"
-The Economist
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Everyone should know the true story of Mao. Writen in great detail based on astonishingly revealing research. Very well narrated.

shocking and essential

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Dieses Hörbuch gibt einen guten Einblick über das sozialistische/kommunistische System. Die kommunistische Weltrevolution wurde von Russland in verschiedene Länder exportiert, wo Diktaturen entstanden, die teilweise noch heute existieren. China war durch Mao sicher die schlimmste.

Schockierend

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There is a lot of truth in this book, but for a non-fiction book there is just so much information inside that is unverifiable (eg., very personal accounts on Mao). I always fact-check while reading or listing to books, however, this one just left too many question marks. Not objective!

Not objective

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The authors are simply not trying to be objective. The whole book seems more like a polemic answer to the other end of the spectrum. Using the term "Chinese kgb" instead of smth like "Chinese Secret police" already does it for me. The authors argue that the name of the organisation has changed to often that this is simpler. When talking about the Soviet side though, the accurate term of the time (e.g. nkwd) is used. Seems to me they purposefully used a symbol laden name (kgb) to paint it negatively. As if the actions of the actual thing weren' t bad enough to do that. Things like that immediately made me think that there is an agenda to the book. It is also very simplistic in its reasons for Maos behavior. After reading academic reviews, it furthermore turns out that they actually made false claims, took citations out of context and grossly distorted evidence. I cannot recommend this book.

i should have researched the book before buying

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