One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China.
Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure.
Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly b.
I. B. Tauris & Company Mao: the man who made china, paperback/philip short
