Mao Zedong (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan D. Spence
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Biography and history
- Time of Work: 1893-1976
- Setting: China
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Dictators, Communism or communists, Politics, Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Revolutions, Nationalism, China or Chinese people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Peasantry or peasants
- Locales: China
Jonathan Spence is the Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and the author of numerous works on Chinese history, including The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution, 1895-1980 (1981), God’s Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan (1996), and The Chan’s Great Continent: China in Western Minds (1998). He is also the coauthor of a photographic history of twentieth century China, The Chinese Century (1996). One of the most respected historians of modern China, Spence is eminently qualified to relate the career...
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