Mao Zedong

副标题: A Penguin Life

ISBN: 9780670886692

出版社: Penguin USA

出版年: 1999-10-01

页数: 208

定价: USD 19.95

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

The sixth book in the bestselling Penguin Lives -- Penguin Lives pairs celebrated writers with famous Great writers on great figures individuals who have shaped our thinking.

The complex persona of Chairman Mao--remembered with hate, awe, and even reverence--calls for what the Boston Globe has termed "[Jonathan] Spence's engaging blend of history, literature, and biography."

Drawing from his expertise in Chinese politics and culture, Spence penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distill an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. Spence superbly illuminates Mao, a leader who, at a watershed moment in history, turned the classic Chinese concept of reform through reversal into an endless adventure in upheaval. Mao examines a chilling enigma for historians, students of human nature, and Americans fascinated more than ever by China.

Praise for Penguin Lives:

"Both entertaining and literary" --The New Yorker

"They bear testimony to the fact that bio-graphical narratives can aspire to art rather than to history." --The New York Times Book Review

作者简介

Jonathan Spence's eleven books on Chinese history include The Gate of Heavenly Peace and The Death of Woman Wang. He teaches at Yale University. His awards include a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship.

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