Mao Books

Reducere. This is the most complete and authoritative account of the childhood and tumultuous life of Jiang Qing, from her early years as an aspiring actress...

Reducere. There have been many books on Mao Zedong, but few match this indispensable study by Wang Fanxi, a leading Chinese Trotskyist and contemporary of Ma...

This "comprehensive, judicious, and finely detailed" (Roderick MacFarquhar, The New York Review of Books) biography of Mao Zedong traces how he cre...

Reducere. A third psychokinetic girl appears Yet another girl is summoned to try and drag Hina back to their world After Anzu, this makes three The new girl'...

Reducere. In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders ...

A tour of the merciless leaders who inflicted their books upon society, featuring the soul-killing prose and poetry of Hitler, Mao and many more

In a forgotten time, a young Somali girl by the name of Shabelle seeks to carve out her own destiny as she adventures through the jungles and palm-...

How has the Party merged Marx, Mao and the market to create a global superpower? And what does this mean for the world? This book delves deeply int...

O câncer é um problema crescente, que rouba vidas no mundo todo em uma taxa alarmante. Um relatório da Organização Mundial de Saúde afirmou que tod...

DescriptionThis special issue of Cin ma & Cie explores the cultural dynamics, ideological aporias and political struggles that characterize the rel...

Reducere. Don't worry The psychokinetics are still at play Take another peek into the daily lives of three psychokinetic girls who have settled down in moder...

Reducere. Description"A mesmerizing study of books by despots great and small, from the familiar to the largely unknown."--The Washington PostA darkly humoro...

Description What's left after a lifetime of service in the Chinese government? At the age of 66, Ouyang Wantong, the former governor of Qinghe prov...

DescriptionNot everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a particular confluence of events to gain absolute control over entire nations.First, you ...

Reducere. WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from t...

Reducere. "Bradley is sharp and rueful, and a voice for a more seasoned, constructive vision of our international relations with East Asia." --"Christian Sci...

Reducere. In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times be...

Reducere. DescriptionThe era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history. But in this book, Fra...

Reducere. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a gr...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of the Don't Know Much About(R) books comes a dramatic account of the origins of democracy, the history of authoritaria...

An incisive examination into the pairing of psychology and situation that creates despotic leaders from the author of Murderous Minds. Not everyone...

Reducere. These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of...

Reducere. What is 'Maoism'? What are its roots, and who are the forces waging a war in its name?// The Indian Prime Minister characterizes them as our graves...

WINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations of a Shanghai family, from t...

For those who witnessed the global collapse of socialism, its resurrection in the twenty-first century comes as a surprise, even a shock. How can s...

Reducere. From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K Bucky Wunderlick, rock star and budding messiah, has hit a spiritual ...

The bestselling author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals returns with a sharply observed, hilarious account of his adventures in China a complex, fasci...

DescriptionForeword by Janet YellenWeijian Shan's Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books ...

Reducere. In this stunning, lyrical memoir that includes a curriculum guide, author Chun Yu recalls the Chinese Cultural Revolution from the perspective of a...

Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--a...

Reducere. In 1957, renowned Indian historian Romila Thapar visited China, where, together with Sri Lankan art historian Anil de Silva, she worked at two cave...

A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy. "You simply cannot unders...