Was Mao Really a Monster? Benton Gregor University of Cardiff UK
Was Mao Really a Monster? Benton Gregor University of Cardiff UK Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. It received a rapturous welcome from…
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Was Mao Really a Monster? Benton Gregor University of Cardiff UK
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. The book portrays Mao as a monster - equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin - and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror.
Most were sharply critical, questioning its authority and the authors' methods, arguing that Chang and Halliday's book is not a work of balanced scholarship, as it purports to be, but a highly selective and even polemical study that sets out to demonise Mao.This book brings together sixteen reviews of Mao: The Unknown Story - all by internationally Few works on China by writers in the West have achieved its impact.Reviews by serious China scholars, however, tended to take a different view.