Jung Chang - Mao: The Unknown Story

Acclaim for Jung Chang and Jon Hallidays

THE UNKNOWN STORY

Provocative. It moves at a brisk pace and is filled with evocative descriptions of dramatic events.

Chicago Tribune

Amazing. It is hard to imagine a more thoroughly researched biography. Powerful and absorbing.

The New York Sun

If any single book in our own time has the capacity to change the course of history, this is it. The story is so shocking that reading it literally takes your breath away.

The New Criterion

No reader can be unmoved by this books passion, or unimpressed by the mountain of evidence upon which it rests. This is the book that will wreck Maos reputation beyond salvage.

Commentary

Groundbreaking. Meticulous and comprehensive. An excoriating portrait.

Vogue

An entertaining and, for the big picture, an ultimately informative book about a figure ever ready for reexamination.

Time

Mind-boggling. Copiously researched brimming with interviews and facts. This astonishing book is a must-read.

USA Today

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THE UNKNOWN STORY

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (19661976) she worked as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by the University of York, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982, the first person from the Peoples Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991, and has sold more than 10 million copies in thirty languages.

Jon Halliday is a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College, University of London. He has written or edited eight previous books.

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. The room where Mao was born.

. Mao with his mother and younger brothers, 1919.

. Mao, his father, uncle and brother, Tse-tan, 1919.

. Yang Kai-hui, Maos second wife, with their two eldest sons, 1924.

. Grigori Voitinsky.

. Maring.

. Mikhail Borodin with Chiang Kai-shek and Wang Ching-wei.

. Mao on the day he first became Chairman Mao, 1931.

. The first formal meeting of the Red state, 1931.

. The bridge over the Dadu River at Luding.

. Mao in Yenan in 1937, with participants in the Autumn Harvest Uprising.

. Mao with Zhu De, Lin Biao and other Red Army officers, 1937.

. Shao Li-tzu.

. General Zhang Zhi-zhong.

. General Hu Tsung-nan.

. General Wei Li-huang.

. Chiang Kai-shek with Chang Hsueh-liang, the Young Marshal.

. Mao with Chang Kuo-tao, 1937.

. Mao with Wang Ming.

. The Politburo in Yenan, 1938.

. Red Army troops entering Yenan, 1937.

. Yenan: the Congress Hall and cave dwellings.

. The Spanish Franciscan cathedral, Yenan.

. Jung Chang outside Maos official residence in Yenan.

. Jon Halliday in Yenan.

. Maos secret hide-out outside Yenan.

. Mao with his third wife, Gui-yuan, 1937.

. Maos sons in Russia.

. Mao in 1939, reading Stalin.

. A receipt signed by Mao for money received from the Russians.

. Mao with US ambassador Patrick Hurley, 1945.

. Jiang Qing, Maos fourth wife, with General George C. Marshall, 1946.

. Chiang Kai-shek visiting his ancestral temple for the last time, 1949.

. Red troops entering Nanjing, 1949.

. Mao proclaiming the founding of Communist China, 1 October 1949.

. Mass executions in front of organized crowds.

. Mao at Stalins 70th birthday, 1949.

. Mao in a Russian cowshed.

. Tiananmen Gate bedecked with a portrait of the dead Stalin, 1953.

. Mao holding up a wreath to Stalins portrait.

. Mao embracing Nikita Khrushchev, 1958.

. Mao inspecting a jet fighter.

. Mao with a gun at a military exercise.

. Mao at a Japanese exhibition in Peking, 1956.

. Maos bedroom.

. Peasants in Henan during the Great Leap Forward.

. A propaganda photograph.

. A girl pulling a cart.

. Liu Shao-chi visiting his home village during the famine, 1961.

. Mao swimming.

. Mao contemplating a map of the world.

. The Panchen Lama being denounced.

. Peng De-huai.

. Peng De-huai being paraded during the Cultural Revolution.

. Liu Shao-chi being struck inside the leaders compound.

. Liu being trampled.

. Lius wife, Wang Guang-mei, being manhandled.

. The jet-plane position.

. Brutal hair-cutting.

. A rare picture of how the Chinese population really looked.

. Dissidents being shot outside Harbin.

. Mao and Lin Biao on Tiananmen Gate, 1966.

. Lin Biao, Mao, Prince Sihanouk and Princess Monique, 1971.

. Lin Biaos daughter, wife and son Tiger.

. Mao with Che Guevara, 1960.

. Mao with Imelda Marcos, 1974.

. Mao with Pol Pot and Ieng Sary, 1975.

. Mao and Chou En-lai with Nixon and Kissinger, 1972.

. Chou banished to a hard chair.

. Deng Xiao-ping and the Gang of Four.

. Madame Mao at her trial.

. Mao with Nixon, February 1976.

. The last picture: Mao with Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 27 May 1976.

, by Du Xiu-xian.

. China

. The area of Maos activities, 192734

. The Long March, October 1934October 1935

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