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Cargando... Mao (1999)por Jonathan D. Spence
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This took me a surprisingly long time to get through; perhaps I was just in the wrong mood. But at least now I have a general outline of Mao's life. Frankly, it doesn't seem much more effort than this little book--the general histories are probably more worthwhile. ( ) Don't know enough about the subject to evaluate properly. It was a good read, not too scholarly. Just enough detail to get a kind of outline of his life and what was happening in the country. Would be interested now in reading more about his writing, as the glimpses in this book were pretty fascinating. A somewhat unbalanced biography: It opens with an abundance of personal detail during Mao's youth, gives a too brief account his rise to leadership during of the Long March, and then distances itself from its subject during the long years of Mao's chairmanship. It's a decent way of getting an outline of Mao's life, but it is too brief to give a complete portrait. Given the concise nature of books in the Penguin Lives series, they lend themselves well to the audio book format. Having read Jonathan Spence's biography of Mao Tse Tung for the series, I was glad to also experience it as an audiobook. At 6 hours in duration, the work is brief, yet it manages to cover the main features of Mao's life and career. I recommend this work, in print or audio format, as a fine, scholarly introduction. As the pre-eminent scholar of China in the USA, Jonathan Spence was an excellent choice to author a biography of Mao Tse Tung for the Penguin Lives series. While necessarily brief (at less than 200 pages), this work offers highlights of the life, times, and career of China's most significant modern leader. I found it informative and enlightening, and consider it a fine introduction for readers who (like me) are unlikely to tackle a large tome on Mao. Having read 17 of the contributions to the Penguin Lives series, I consider this one of the best. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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This intimate portrait of Mao Zedong, one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history, introduces the essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family, friends, and confidential assistants, as well as his youthful writings, poems, letters, and drafts of speeches. Drawing from his expertise in Chinese politics & culture, the author penetrates Mao's rhetoric & infamous self-will to distill an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn & mysterious as the emperors he disdained. The author superbly illuminates Mao, a leader who, at a watershed moment in history, turned the classic Chinese concept of reform through reversal into an endless adventure in upheaval. The complex persona of Chairman Mao-remembered with hate, awe, and even reverence-calls for what the Boston Globe has termed "Jonathan Spence's engaging blend of history, literature, and biography." Spence superbly illuminates Mao, a leader who, at a watershed moment in history, turned the classic Chinese concept of reform through reversal into an endless adventure in upheaval. Mao examines a chilling enigma for historians, students of human nature, and Americans fascinated more than ever by China. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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