The Messiah and the Mandarins: Mao Tsetung and the Ironies of Power
by Bloodworth, Dennis
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0689112971
- ISBN 13
- 9780689112973
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A: Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7. Atheneum, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover Book and Jacket in Very Good Condition. 331 pp. Ivory quarter cloth w/gilt titles, red cloth boards with blind-stamped title; top and bottom edges lightly rubbed. Text block edges have a few pale spots.Otherwise clean and unmarked, tight and solid binding. Pages quite clean, no markings. This book is a study in irony. The life of Mao and the story of his times provide the background for a tragicomedy of Chinese manners on a grand scale, in which the characteristics of the hero that enabled him to perform the almost incredible feat of "liberating" all China then prompted him to shatter the society he created. Atheneum, NY 1982. ISBN10: 0689112971, ISBN13: 9780689112973
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017100
- Title
- The Messiah and the Mandarins: Mao Tsetung and the Ironies of Power
- Author
- Bloodworth, Dennis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0689112971
- ISBN 13
- 9780689112973
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 8vo - over 7
- Keywords
- CHINA-POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT, 1893-1976; CHINA, HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; MAO ZEDONG, 1949-1991; CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION; CHINA, GREAT LEAP FORWARD;
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. China;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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