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Was Mao really a monster? : the academic response to Chang and Halliday's Mao, the unknown story / edited by Gregor Benton and Lin Chun. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - viii, 199 p. ; 24 cm.

Reviews in non-specialist academic publications
Dark tales of Mao the Merciless/ Delia Davin
Jade and plastic/ Andrew J. Nathan
Portrait of a monster/ Jonathan D. Spence

Reviews in The China Journal
The portrayal of opportunism, betrayal and manipulation in Mao's rise to power/ Gregor Benton and Steve Tsang
The new number one counter-revolutionary inside the party: academic biography as mass criticism/ Timothy Cheek
Pitfalls of charisma/ Lowell Dittmer
'I'm So Ronree'/ Germie R. Barme

Reviews in other specialist academic journals
Mao and The Da Vinci Code', conspiracy, narrative and history/ David S. G. Goodman
Mao: a super monster?/ Alfred Chan

Chinese reviews
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story: a review/ Chen Yung-Fa
Mao: The Unknown Story, an intellectual scandal/ Mobo Gao
A critique of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story/ Jin Xiaoding

Other reviews
Mao lives/ Arthur Waldron
From Wild Swans to Mao: The Unknown Story/ Bill Willmott


ISBN: 9780415493291 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0415493293 (hbk. : alk. paper) 9780415493307 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0415493307 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203875148 (ebook) 0203875141 (ebook)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Heads of state--China

Dewey Class. No.: 951.05092 / BEN/W