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9780415493307

Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and HallidayÆs "Mao: The Unknown Story"

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415493307

  • ISBN10:

    0415493307

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2009-08-13
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Mao: The Unknown Storyby 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Reviews in non-specialist academic publications
Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless
Jade and Plastic
Portrait of a Monster
Reviews in the China Journal
The Portrayal of Opportunism, Betrayal, and Manipulation in Mao's Rise to Power
The New Number One Counter-Revolutionary inside the Party: Academic Biography as Mass Criticism
Pitfalls of Charisma
Reviews in other specialist academic journals
Mao and The Da Vinci Code: Conspiracy, Narrative and History
Mao: A Super Monster?
Chinese reviews
Mao: The Unknown Story, A Review
Mao: The Unknown Story: An Intellectual Scandal
A Critique of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Other reviews
Mao Lives
From Wild Swans to Mao: The Unknown Story
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