Mao Zedong: A Life - Brossura

Spence, Jonathan D.

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ISBN 10: 0143037722 ISBN 13: 9780143037729

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

Riassunto

A renowned expert on Chinese history turns his considerable talent and experience to the life of China's greatest modern leader--the enigmatic, mythologized, often maligned, and still-revered architect of Chinese Communism and the modern Chinese state. Reprint.

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Praise for Mao Zedong: A Life:
 
“Spence is the best known and most talented historian of China writing in English today. . . . His Mao Zedong succeeds.”
—Los Angeles Times
 
“Exceptionally successful.”
—The New Yorker
 
“The task of bringing Mao to a large, non-specialist audience is one for which Spence is eminently well-suited. His lucidly written, compellingly narrated explorations of modern Chinese history have attracted a readership unmatched by that of any other academic China specialist. His study of Mao is short . . . his writing tight, his judgments restrained.”
—The Washington Post
 
“An elegant account, at once sparse and robust.”
—The Economist
 
“Jonathan Spence [is] an eloquent chronicler of Chinese history. . . . [A] brisk, elegant book. . . . Spence skillfully uses Mao’s letters and poems to explore the Chinese leader’s thinking and relationships.”
—USA Today
 
“There is no better person to write a general, readable account of Mao than Spence, an acclaimed Chinese historian and author of several biographies.”
—Library Journal (starred review)
 
“Fluid and informative despite its brevity.”
—Publishers Weekly

 

L'autore:

Jonathan Spence's eleven books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace, Treason by the Book, and The Death of Woman Wang. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship. He teaches at Yale University.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143037722
• ISBN 13: 9780143037729
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 208