Mao and China: A Legacy of Turmoil by Stanley Karnow, Nien Cheng

Mao and China: A Legacy of Turmoil

Stanley Karnow, Nien Cheng

592 pages first pub 1972 (editions)

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Mao Zedong died in 1976, yet his ghost still haunts present-day China. In this book, Stanley Karnow examines that dire episode in human history and the man responsible for it, detailing the Communist takeover in 1949 and Mao's lofty vision of tran...

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