Mao: The Unknown Story
by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
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Author: Jon Halliday, Jung ChangEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-14
ISBN: 0679746323
Number of pages: 864
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: 1/2 Sure, 1/2 Unsure
Summary: 4 Stars
Well I read this book after I went to China for a graduation present which was at least 1 or 2 years ago, I'm 21 now. And I would like to form my own opinon. I'm very confused. Was Mao really that horrible? Did he really kill more people then Stalin and Hitler? Well I could kind of believe that part, due to the fact that there are more people in China then in Europe and Russia. This truth is hard to handle, espcially considering the fact that I didn't learn about Communist China in high school. Oh yah I learned about the Holocost and Stalinist Russia, but never about Maoist China!
Well the book starts out with Mao being forced to marry "was it his cousin"? Well she was older then he was and when she died, well he didn't really care.
But if Mao was really that inhuman then the writter of the book did a good job at making it seem that way. And it seems to me that he makes Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia look like boy scouts compared to what went on behind closed doors in China.
And it said that Mao was responisble for the deaths of over 70- to maybe 80 million people? Hard to believe isn't it? Maybe, but like I said, there are more people in China then almost anywhere else in the world.
And when I went to China, I was told by my mother to keep my mouth shut about the government and about Mao. WTF?! Ok so am I going to keep my mouth shut about Hitler if I go to Germany? Or Russia about Stalin? But then again I was a guest in their country. So if you ever go to a country like China, then keep your mouth shut, and you'll have a great time!
But if Mao really did commit those crimes. I know darn well that karma will come back to him one of these days, even if it take a few centuries.
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