Politics in China:
An Introduction

Edited by
William A. Joseph

Oxford University Press, March 2010

Jung Chang & Jon Halliday
MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY
(Random House, October 2005)

US Publisher's homepage for the book.

Chapter One of the book (NY Times).

Reviews:

* featured reviews by China scholars & particularly knowledgeable journalists

*Review of Mao: The Unknown Story by Stuart Schram,
The China Quarterly , Volume 189, March 2007, pp. 205-208.

*"The Bad Man School of History," by Ross Terrill,
Claremont Review of Books, Summer 2006.

*"Jade and Plastic," by Andrew Nathan,
The London Review of Books, November 17, 2005.

*"Portrait of a Monster," by Jonathan Spence,
New York Review of Books, November 3, 2005.

*"Inside the Great Shipwreck. Mao: The Unknown Story," by Thomas P. Bernstein, The New Leader 88.5, Sept-Oct 2005.

*"Mao Lives," by Arthur Waldron, Commentary, October 2005.

*"Throwing the Book at Mao," The Age, October 8, 2005.

*"The Real Mao," by Nicholas Kristoff, New York Times Book Review, October 23, 2005.

*"Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless," by Delia Davin, Times Higher Education Supplement (London, U.K.), August 12, 2005.

"New Mao Biography: Not Historical Scholarship but Hysterical Rant," Revolutionary Communist Party-USA

"The Mao That Roared," by Adi Ignatius, Time Magazine, October 23, 2005

"Mao & the Maoists," by Keith Windschuttle, The New Criterion, October 2005

"Putting a knife into heart of the Chairman's legend," by Howard W. French, San Francisco Chronicle, October 23, 2005

"The Real Mao," by Steven Mosher,Washington Times, October 23, 2005

"'Unknown Story' repeats Mao's brutal history," by Deirdre Donahue, USA Today, October 19, 2005

"China's Monster, Second to None," by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times, October 21, 2005

"Long march to the real Mao Tse-tung," by Seth Faison, Los Angeles Times, October, 21, 2005.

"Mao: the ugly reality behind an icon," by Marjorie Kehe, Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2005

"Taking Aim at Mao," by Donald Morrison, Time Asia, June 6, 2005

"This book will shake the world" by Lisa Allardice, The Guardian, May 26, 2005

"The long march to evil," by Roy Hattersley, The Observer, June 5, 2005

"Mao: The end of the affair," by James Heartfield, Spiked On-line

"Too much hate, too little understanding," by Frank McLynn, The Independent on Sunday, June 5, 2005

"History: Mao by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday," by Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Times, May 29, 2005

Interviews with the authors:

• National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation, October 20, 2005
• The Independent (UK), June 3, 2005
• The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC New York, October 19, 2005
• Australian Broadcasting Corporation, July 22, 2005
  Time Asia, June 6, 2005