Mao
(Jung Chang and Jon Halliday)
This excellent book is difficult to read only because it catalogs such an exhausting array of tortures, mutilations, betrayals, adulteries, treasons, murders and other crimes. Authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have done an extraordinary job of compiling a wealth of information. They had access to Soviet archives that shed new light on Mao?s rise to - and ruthless exercise of - power. If the book has a defect, it is that despite the authors? 10 years of exhaustive research, readers may find this report of staggering cruelty almost impossible to believe. There?s no denying that it?s thoroughly reported. However the authors have a distinct negative bias. No matter how well backgrounded, it can also be perceived as a form of anti-Mao propaganda. Yet if even a fraction of what is here reported were true, it could all be true.
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