Mao: A life by Philip Short

A great work of art IMHO, a descriptive and gripping tale about Mao's life, a true telling neither embellishing the good or the bad. From his childhood all the way to the end of his life its a great autobiography it isn't a novel, its a serious and proffessional.

But nevertheless, I haven't finished the book yet but I liked what I hear but it gave me this question:

Are there any historical fiction books or historical movies about Mao Tse-tung availiable in english subs?

Ender Wiggin said:

A great work of art IMHO, a descriptive and gripping tale about Mao's life, a true telling neither embellishing the good or the bad. From his childhood all the way to the end of his life its a great autobiography it isn't a novel, its a serious and proffessional.

But nevertheless, I haven't finished the book yet but I liked what I hear but it gave me this question:

Are there any historical fiction books or historical movies about Mao Tse-tung availiable in english subs?

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If the author is Philip Short, then how can it be an autobiography?

whooops, I confuse autobiography with whatever this is technically called within literally college circles that I can't remember at this moment.

Ender Wiggin said:

whooops, I confuse autobiography with whatever this is technically called within literally college circles that I can't remember at this moment.

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obviously, not very clever college circles. and you managed to spell 'literary' wrong which is quite ironic.

he's in french canada, give him a break. if it's written by someone else, it's just a biography.

but how can you confirm that this book is acurate and is not partially opinion?? because it is hard to write stuff about a person when you can only interview his relatives (mostly dead too). and official documents about him are mostly propaganda. so it would hard to get accurate into.

I wonder who Maork really is.

do it in somewhere else...and for notice he isen't ger_mark...

Ender Wiggin said:

A great work of art IMHO, a descriptive and gripping tale about Mao's life, a true telling neither embellishing the good or the bad. From his childhood all the way to the end of his life its a great autobiography it isn't a novel, its a serious and proffessional.

But nevertheless, I haven't finished the book yet but I liked what I hear but it gave me this question:

Are there any historical fiction books or historical movies about Mao Tse-tung availiable in english subs?

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my friend gave me a book for my birthday called "the most evil dictators in history", by shelley klein. im not kidding. it has a nice section devoted entirely to mao. dont be decieved by the title, it actualy provides very nice info about his life, his power, the cultural revolution, and insight on his life.

others mentioned include kim il sun, joseph stalin, saddam hussein, pol pot...

Napoleon, please explain to me where else I could post this to where the members of this particular forum can view and discuss this book? If it doesn't come under chinese history then I'm sorry then I don't know what does.

I'm currently at tyhe part in the late 20's where Mao is leading his first true military command in the Jinggangshan Base area where he beings to formulate his military stratagies with Zhu de. The context is very well readable, the tone is neutral, and from the introduction apparently he has made a huge effort such as searching party archives, speaking with friends and family members, collegues, foreign eye witness accounts, witness accounts of him speaking, and interviews with Edgar snow, etc.

Napoleon, please explain to me where else I could post this to where the members of this particular forum can view and discuss this book? If it doesn't come under chinese history then I'm sorry then I don't know what does.

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Who are you refering to? For my behalf you all are free to discuss about this book, why wouldn't you?