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Mao: A Life
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This is an excellent book. Long, detailed -- there are passages where one has to let one's eye skip over the surface like stones on a pond... but for someone who has not read much about his period, I couldn't ask for a better introduction.
The author, focusing on the narrative, manages brilliantly to take the reader -- and seamlessly, from Mao the idealistic, romantic, visionary poet and revolutionary to... A quote near the end says: Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have placed him among the gods; had in died in 1966, he would still have been considered a great man; but since he died in 1976, alas..., what can one say....
Tragic, riveting, and expertly told.
The author, focusing on the narrative, manages brilliantly to take the reader -- and seamlessly, from Mao the idealistic, romantic, visionary poet and revolutionary to... A quote near the end says: Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have placed him among the gods; had in died in 1966, he would still have been considered a great man; but since he died in 1976, alas..., what can one say....
Tragic, riveting, and expertly told.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
April 30, 2009
– Shelved as:
20th-21st-century
April 30, 2009
– Shelved
May 6, 2009
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11.77%
"Excellent book, clear, readable, sufficiently deep. I highly recommend"
page
97
May 6, 2009
– Shelved as:
china
