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Jung chang wild swans has been an extraordinary bestseller around the world, selling over 10 million copies, and reaching a wider readership than any other book on chinanow she and her husband jon halliday have written a new biography of mao tsetungbased on a decade of research, and on interviews with many mao circle outreach in china who have never. The unknown story isbn 9780099507376 pdf epub jung. In this groundbreaking biography, jung chang vividly describes how empress dowager cixi the most important woman in chinese history brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Click download or read online button to get mao the unknown story book now. The unknown story jung chang, jon halliday download. Her books have been translated into over 40 languages and sold more than 15 million copies outside mainland china where they are. Originally published in hardcover in great britain by jonathan cape, london, in 2005, and in the united states by alfred a. The unknown story jung chang, jon halliday ever since the spectacular success of chang s wild swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of chinas most notorious modern leader. June 04, 2005 biography the greatest dictator seventy million dead, a nation taken back to the stone age.
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