- Biography, Heads of state, Politics and government, China, politics and government, 1949-
A biography of of Mao Zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regarding Mao's attitude toward women, Jung Chang (a woman) goes for it.
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- Author
- Jung Chang, Jon Halliday, Jon Halliday
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 860
- Publisher
- Sifriyat Maʻariv, TAURUS, Anchor
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- Japanese, French, heb, und
- ISBN
- 9784062132015
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Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was publ
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