TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton, Gregor,
AU  - Lin, Chun, 
TI  - Was Mao really a monster?: the academic response to Chang and Halliday's Mao, the unknown story 
SN  - 9780415493291 (hbk. : alk. paper)
U1  - 951.05092 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Heads of state
KW  - China
N1  - 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

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