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Pdf on jan 1, 2006, g benton and others published mao. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the long march, and. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike. The unknown story focuses on the vast dark side of mao zedong mao tsetung in wadegiles transliteration, the chinese communist leader who rose to power to rule a unified mainland china for. The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by the wife and husband team of writer jung chang and historian jon halliday, who depict mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than adolf hitler or joseph stalin in conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of. The unknown story, jung chang and jon halliday make an impassioned case for mao as the most monstrous tyrant ever. The unknown story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews. Bernstein professor of politica l science, columbia university g etting mao zedon g righ t ha bee n a formidable challenge.
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