Madame Mao: The White Boned Demon
 a very timely read - recommended to everyone: This book is a laborous attempt to highlight a huge danger of a society reliant on both totalitarian tenets and on a Tzar-like charisma of a single human leader. With no democracy nor a modern social system [... more]
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Mao: A Biography
Good but dense: I ploughed into Terrill's Mao biography with great eagerness, as his account of Jiang Qing, Mao's notorious wife, is one of the best China biographies around. I was disappointed. Disclaimer, I didn't even finish it. Perhaps Mao is a more [... more]
CDN$33.29
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The New Chinese Empire: And What It Means For The United ...
Superb Review of China's Government's Perceptions: Mr. Terrill, the Harvard scholar who is both the widely acclaimed biographer of Mao and his wife, the best-selling portrayer of China in his "800,000" and the writer of the fascinating " [... more]
CDN$23.95
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