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Description:Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. 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. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. 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. 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 well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Taken together they demonstrate that Chang and Halliday’s portrayal of Mao is in many places woefully inaccurate. While agreeing that Mao had many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, they conclude that a more balanced picture is needed.Dark tales of Mao the merciless / Delia Davin Jade and plastic / Andrew J. Nathan Portrait of a monster / Jonathan D. Spence The portrayal of opportunism, betrayal and manipulation in Mao's rise to power / Gregor Benson and Steve Tsang The new number one counter-revolutionaryinside the party: academic biography as mass criticusm / Timothy Cheek Pitfalls of charisma / Lowell Dittmer "I'm so ronree" / Geremie R Barmé Mao and the Da Vinci code: conspiracy, narrative and history / David S.G. Goodman Mao: a super monster? / Alfred Chan Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: the unknown story: a review / Chen Yung-Fa Mao: the unknown story: an intellectual scandal / Mobo Gao A critique of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: the unknown story / Jin Xiaoding Mao lives / Arthur Waldron From Wild swans to Mao: the unknown story / Bill Willmott.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story". To get started finding Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 192

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Routledge

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0415493307

Description: Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. 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. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. 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. 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 well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Taken together they demonstrate that Chang and Halliday’s portrayal of Mao is in many places woefully inaccurate. While agreeing that Mao had many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, they conclude that a more balanced picture is needed.Dark tales of Mao the merciless / Delia Davin Jade and plastic / Andrew J. Nathan Portrait of a monster / Jonathan D. Spence The portrayal of opportunism, betrayal and manipulation in Mao's rise to power / Gregor Benson and Steve Tsang The new number one counter-revolutionaryinside the party: academic biography as mass criticusm / Timothy Cheek Pitfalls of charisma / Lowell Dittmer "I'm so ronree" / Geremie R Barmé Mao and the Da Vinci code: conspiracy, narrative and history / David S.G. Goodman Mao: a super monster? / Alfred Chan Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: the unknown story: a review / Chen Yung-Fa Mao: the unknown story: an intellectual scandal / Mobo Gao A critique of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: the unknown story / Jin Xiaoding Mao lives / Arthur Waldron From Wild swans to Mao: the unknown story / Bill Willmott.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story". To get started finding Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story", you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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