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Mao: The Unknown Story
by Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine Condition/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224071262
- ISBN 13
- 9780224071260
- Seller
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About This Item
Jonathan Cape, London, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Very Good. First impression. Size: Octavo 8vo (standard book size). 814 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, without significant tears or chips or other damage. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This BOOK IS IN STOCK and READY TO MAIL NOW. Your book when ordered will be securely packed and promptly dispatched by Great Southern Books. FIRST/FIRST. Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0224071262. ISBN/EAN: 9780224071260. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6833. . 9780224071260 This book weighs over one kilogram, and may involve extra shipping charges if posted to some countries..
Synopsis
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. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans , was published in 1991. Jon Halliday is a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College, University of London. He has written or edited eight previous books.
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- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6833
- Title
- Mao: The Unknown Story
- Author
- Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0224071262
- ISBN 13
- 9780224071260
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976, Heads of state -- China -- Biography, China -- Politics and government -- 1949-, History; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0224071262 EAN: 9780224071260 Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon Mao: The Unknown Story
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