The Death of Mao
The Tangshan Earthquake and the Birth of the New China
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2013
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Main
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-24400-3 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-24400-3 (ISBN)
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The Death of Mao opens in the summer of 1976, as Mao Zedong lay dying and China was struck by a great natural disaster. The earthquake that struck Tangshan, a shoddily built mining city, was one of the worst in recorded history, killing half a million people.
But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted, paralysed by in-fighting over who would take control after Chairman Mao finally died. Would Mao's fanatical wife and her collaborators, the Gang of Four, be allowed to continue the Cultural Revolution, which had shut China off from the world and reduced it to poverty and chaos?
Or would Deng Xiaoping and his reformist friends be able to take control and open China up to the market, and end the near permanent state of civil war? James Palmer recreates the tensions of that fateful summer, when the fate of China and the world were in the balance - as injured and starving people crawled among the ruins of a stricken city.
'The best account of Mao's last year that we have . . . It deserves to be a classic of modern Chinese history.' John Simpson
But the Chinese Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted, paralysed by in-fighting over who would take control after Chairman Mao finally died. Would Mao's fanatical wife and her collaborators, the Gang of Four, be allowed to continue the Cultural Revolution, which had shut China off from the world and reduced it to poverty and chaos?
Or would Deng Xiaoping and his reformist friends be able to take control and open China up to the market, and end the near permanent state of civil war? James Palmer recreates the tensions of that fateful summer, when the fate of China and the world were in the balance - as injured and starving people crawled among the ruins of a stricken city.
'The best account of Mao's last year that we have . . . It deserves to be a classic of modern Chinese history.' John Simpson
James Palmer lives in Beijing. He has interviewed many survivors of the Tangshan earthquake and of the Communist Party struggles of that crucial year. His books include The Bloody White Baron, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008, and The Death of Mao, which John Simpson called 'The best account of Mao's last year that we have.'
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.1.2013 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 126 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 230 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-24400-9 / 0571244009 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-24400-3 / 9780571244003 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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