Mao

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Chairman Mao’s extraordinary life and complex legacy laid bare. Kerry Brown is professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. Prior to this he was a diplomat working for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office from 1998 to 2005, and then Associate Fellow, Senior Fellow and Head of the Asia Programme at Chatham House, before becoming Professor of Chinese Politics and Director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Professor Brown is the author of 24 books on modern China, the most recent of which are `The Taiwan Story’ (Penguin Random House 2024) and `The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400-Year Struggle for Power.’ (Yale University Press, 2024). Mao Zedong lived one of the most epic and influential lives of the twentieth century. His impact on the People’s Republic of China was vast. Half a century after his passing, he remains a divisive and controversial figure. This book provides an accessible narrative of Mao's life, from the fall of the Qing dynasty in the early part of the twentieth century to the long years in which he struggled not only to ensure the Communist Party of China survived but that it then came to power after a civil war with the nationalists. Mao's tragic failures as ruler were some of the worst to ever befall a modern society, while his personal life remains a source of intense interest. Clear-eyed and non-partisan, this is the first accessible biography of Mao to appear in English for some time.

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