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Mao and the Chinese Revolution

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An illustrated exploration of one of China's most controversial, influential, and polarizing figures in modern history.

It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China, and beyond national borders, with the history of communism as well. His version of guerilla warfare and revolution resulted in the construction of a socialist society that became a model of socialism throughout the world.

Both a tyrant and rebel, Mao wanted to rule through revolution. Yet the Big Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966) each plunged China into chaos without saving it from totalitarianism. After 1978, de-Maoization and economic reforms by Deng Xiaoping helped heal the country’s wounds, but the future yet remains uncertain. Whether to be an empire united or broken, serenely "open" or in conflict, democratic or authoritarian, egalitarian or prosperous—so many lingering questions remain of those that Mao and his generation began asking nearly a century ago. Was the Maoist Revolution futile? Would China have been better off without Mao—and is such a thing imaginable?

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Yves Chevrier is a professor of modern and contemporary Chinese studies at the School of Eastern Languages (INALCO) and at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of numerous books about 20th-century China.

Product details

Authors Yves Chevrier, Chevrier Yves
Assisted by David Stryker (Illustration), Stryker David (Illustration)
Publisher Interlink pub group
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.09.2023
 
EAN 9781623717155
ISBN 978-1-62371-715-5
No. of pages 160
Series Interlink Illustrated Historie
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

History, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence

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