Mao (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Short
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography and history
- Time of Work: 1893-1976
- Setting: China
- Principal Characters: Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-Shek, Zhou Enlai, Jiang Qing, Richard Nixon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Dictators, Communism or communists, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, China or Chinese people, Heads of state
- Locales: China
Philip Short has been a journalist for the United Kingdom’s British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Associated Press, The Economist, Time magazine, and the London Times. The author of The Dragon and the Bear: Inside China and Russia Today (1982), a comparison of the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin with China after Mao Zedong, Short is eminently qualified to write the life of Mao, one of the twentieth century’s most controversial figures.
Mao, born in 1893 to a prosperous peasant family in Hunan province, never entirely transcended his rural...
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