Mao Zedong: A Political and Intellectual PortraitISBN: 978-0-7456-3107-3
Paperback
232 pages
December 2006, Polity
Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- Major new political biography of Mao, written by one of the
world’s leading authorities on Chinese revolutionary
politics
- Offers a clear and unbiased account of Mao's political and
intellectual development
- Gives a detailed analysis of Mao's pre-revolutionary career and
how he came to power
- Discusses his role in the failures of the Great Leap Forward
and the Cultural Revolution
- Considers Mao's huge legacy for China at the start of the twenty-first century