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A review by spitzig
Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
3.0
I'm not enough of a historian to judge the accuracy of the book. The personal insults the author continually made at Mao make me distrust her impartiality a little.
I was not aware that Mao did hardly nothing to HELP China. He unified China. A lot of that was by torture and fear. He built hardly nothing. He tried to build an arms industry. But, he didn't want to bother with the infrastructure to back it up. He didn't bother to maintain equipment. It was like a robot with the command "MAKE WEAPONS".
He would be the extreme politician side of politician/statesman. He didn't care about "the people". There were almost .5 billion people in China, so a nuclear war would leave lots of Chinese people for him to rule over. He cared about those in power-making sure they were tightly under his control.
It took me forever to read this book because there was hardly nothing HAPPY in it. It was lots of executions, torture, political maneuvering-not in a good way.
I was not aware that Mao did hardly nothing to HELP China. He unified China. A lot of that was by torture and fear. He built hardly nothing. He tried to build an arms industry. But, he didn't want to bother with the infrastructure to back it up. He didn't bother to maintain equipment. It was like a robot with the command "MAKE WEAPONS".
He would be the extreme politician side of politician/statesman. He didn't care about "the people". There were almost .5 billion people in China, so a nuclear war would leave lots of Chinese people for him to rule over. He cared about those in power-making sure they were tightly under his control.
It took me forever to read this book because there was hardly nothing HAPPY in it. It was lots of executions, torture, political maneuvering-not in a good way.