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Mao: The Unknown Story (2005)

de Jung Chang, Jon Halliday

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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed the Japanese occupation; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After he conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. He caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule--in peacetime. This entirely fresh look at Mao will astonish historians and the general reader alike.--From publisher description.… (més)
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Mao was an evil man that led an evil regime and, without a care, directly or indirectly contributed to the peacetime deaths of tens of millions of his own people. There is no justification for that. If you want to know the how and why then this book is highly recommended. ( )
  everettroberts | Oct 20, 2023 |
We've all heard of the horrible atrocities committed by the likes of Hitler, Stalin,or Mussolini. But for a long time due to the utmost secrecy Mao upheld in China and the cult of personality myth he created for himself, Mao's legacy kept him out of their league. However, from page, one it becomes clear that Author Jung Chang wrote this bio to blow away the myth that Mao was concerned about and acted in order to improve the lives of the people who served him. In Jung Chang's telling of Mao's life the only thing that concerned Mao was himself. She also makes it clear that what sets apart Mao from some of the most horrible monsters to ever walk the face of the earth, was the sheer numbers of the people concerned. During his decades long rule he controlled fully one fifth of the worlds total population. One fifth ! Hundreds of Hundreds of millions of these people were murdered outright. Those that escaped death suffered cruel, harsh, penniless lives. The fact that the whims of just one evil man could expose one fifth of the worlds' population to such abject misery is absolutely mind boggling. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
Eine gelungene Biographie über den Gründer der VR China. Es war mir nur ansatzweise bewusst, wie empathie- und rücksichtslos dieser Mann war. Er passt wunderbar in die Ruhmeshalle der Massenmörder rein. ( )
  likos77 | Mar 11, 2023 |
La biografía definitiva de Mao Zedong.

Jung Chang y el historiador Jon Halliday, su marido, han escrito una biografía de Mao realmente sobrecogedora. Basada en diez años de investigación y en las entrevistas realizadas a muchas de las figuras que se movieron en los círculos más cercanos a Mao -y que hasta ahora no habían hablado- y con casi todo aquel que, fuera de China, mantuvo alguna relación significativa con el líder chino, ésta es la biografía de Mao más seria y acreditada que se ha escrito.

Después de conquistar China, a partir de 1949 Mao tuvo el secreto objetivo de dominar el mundo. En la persecución de esta fantasía causó la muerte de 38 millones de personas en la mayor hambruna de la historia. En conjunto, bajo el gobierno de Mao perecieron, en tiempos de paz, más de 70 millones de seres humanos. La autora nos lleva a las sombrías estancias de su corte y nos deja observar el drama hasta en los rincones más recónditos. La personalidad de Mao y su relación con sus esposas, hijos y amantes salen a la luz por primera vez.

Reseñas:
«Pocos libros están destinados a cambiar la historia, pero este lo hará.»
George Walden, Daily Mail

«Jung Chang y Jon Halliday entran en una crítica salvaje que, basándose en numerosísimas fuentes -incluidas las soviéticas-, acabarán por barrer las miasmas de engaño e ignorancia que todavía envuelven la vida de Mao a los ojos de muchos ciudadanos occidentales.»
Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph

«Una obra magistral. Esta magnífica biografía destruye metódicamente cada pilar de las reivindicaciones de Mao. Un logro.»
Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times Book Review

«Un triunfo. Un asombroso retrato de la tiranía, la degeneración, los asesinatos en masa y la promiscuidad, una batería de bombas para el revisionismo histórico y una soberbia pieza de investigación. La primera biografía privada y política del mayor monstruo de los monstruos.»
Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Sunday Times

«Lo que Chang y Halliday han hecho es inmenso y sobrepasa, dentro del ámbito de las biografías, todo lo que se había hecho anteriormente.»
Jonathan Mirsky, The Independent

«Chang y Halliday arrojan una luz nueva y reveladora sobre cada uno de los episodios de la tumultuosa vida de Mao. Un libro estupendo.»
Michael Yahuda, The Guardian

«Este libro es una bomba atómica.»
Donald Morrison, TIME

«Una obra que pone de manifiesto que comunismo y destrucción son sinónimos, pese a la admiración que la mencionada ideología recibió y sigue recibiendo desde determinadas instancias académicas y culturales.»
Alfredo Crespo, El imparcial
  ferperezm | Feb 18, 2023 |
An atom bomb of a book is about right. If you are too sensitive to read about corruption and atrocities on an epic scale, and the downright insanity of the megalomaniacal leadership of a totalitarian state - then don't read this book.
The story of communism in China is right up there with the Nazi holocaust, and by far exceeds the elimination of entire social classes by the Bolsheviks. I am very thankful to be living in a democracy where crimes against humanity on such a scale could be prevented by the people removing those responsible from office.
Sadly, that would still not be possible in communist China, where no doubt another Tiananmen Square-type protest movement would once again be crushed by tanks at the behest of their own government. Only the example of successful democracies can save them. ( )
  MatthewFrend | Nov 24, 2022 |
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This huge biography of the 20th-century political giant is based on prodigious research and contains fascinating new material. Jung Chang, who is of Chinese origin, and Jon Halliday, her British husband, offer plenty of passion and detail in their unremittingly negative but engrossing portrait of Mao Tse-Tung. Overall the book is less the "unknown story" promised by the subtitle than a known story distilled into a polemic.
 

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Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed the Japanese occupation; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After he conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. He caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule--in peacetime. This entirely fresh look at Mao will astonish historians and the general reader alike.--From publisher description.

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