Mao — The Unknown Story
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Mao — The Unknown Story
| Full title | Mao: The Unknown Story |
|---|---|
| Author | Jung Chang and Jon Halliday |
| Published | 2005 |
| Pages | 860 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Chang and Halliday’s hostile biography, built on a decade of interviews and archives, arguing Mao’s death toll and his indifference to it were both larger than the record allowed. Heavily disputed by China scholars — read alongside the criticism. |
Where I heard about it
- Replies to @typesfast — named in the answers to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” (the thread, June 2025).
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, under Marxism and Collective Psychology.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Mao Zedong · China · History · Power — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
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