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Mao: The Unknown Story book

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Mao: The Unknown Story is a revisionist 2005 biography of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) that was written by the husband-and-wife team of the writer Jung Chang and the historian Jon Halliday, who detail Mao's early life, his introduction to the Chinese Communist Party, and his political career. The book frames Mao's life as a transition from a rebel against the autocratic Kuomintang government to the totalitarian dictator over the People's Republic of China. Chang and Halliday heavily cover Mao's role in the planning and the execution of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. They open the book by calling him "Mao Tse-tung" instead of "Mao Zedong", which is

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gazetteer:book Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's la
of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story . We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the Cultural Revolution as t
gazetteer:book Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's la
of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story . We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the Cultural Revolution as t
gazetteer:book Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's la
of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story . We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the Cultural Revolution as t
gazetteer:book Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's la
of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story . We discuss: - what it was like growing up during the Cultural Revolution as t