The Resource Mao : a very short introduction, Delia Davin
Mao : a very short introduction, Delia Davin
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- Summary
- "A giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. Delia Davin provides an invaluable portrait of Mao, showing him in all his complexity-ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, yet a leader who is still detested by some and venerated by others. She shows how he helped found both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and how for many years he fought on two fronts, for control of the Party and in an armed struggle for the Party's control of the country. His revolution unified China and began its rise to world power status. He was the architect of the Great Leap Forward that he hoped would make China both prosperous and egalitarian, but instead ended in economic disaster resulting in millions of deaths. It was Mao's growing suspicion of his fellow leaders that led him to launch the Cultural Revolution, and his last years were dogged by ill-health and his despairing attempts to find a successor. Davis also looks at the years of his death, when the reform leadership abandoned Mao's revolutionary goals and embraced the market."--Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 142 pages
- Contents
-
- Becoming a revolutionary
- Organizing revolution
- Yan'an
- First years of the People's Republic
- The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks
- The Cultural Revolution : it's right to rebel
- Decline and death
- Legacies and assessments: the posthumous Mao
- Isbn
- 9780199588664
- Label
- Mao : a very short introduction
- Title
- Mao
- Title remainder
- a very short introduction
- Statement of responsibility
- Delia Davin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "A giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupation, Marxist theoretician, modernizer, and visionary despot. This Very Short Introduction chronicles Mao's journey from peasant child to ruler of the most populous nation on Earth. Delia Davin provides an invaluable portrait of Mao, showing him in all his complexity-ruthless, brutal, and ambitious, a man of enormous talent and perception, yet a leader who is still detested by some and venerated by others. She shows how he helped found both the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Army, and how for many years he fought on two fronts, for control of the Party and in an armed struggle for the Party's control of the country. His revolution unified China and began its rise to world power status. He was the architect of the Great Leap Forward that he hoped would make China both prosperous and egalitarian, but instead ended in economic disaster resulting in millions of deaths. It was Mao's growing suspicion of his fellow leaders that led him to launch the Cultural Revolution, and his last years were dogged by ill-health and his despairing attempts to find a successor. Davis also looks at the years of his death, when the reform leadership abandoned Mao's revolutionary goals and embraced the market."--Publisher's website
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Davin, Delia
- Dewey number
- 951.05092
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
-
- DS778.M3
- DS778.M3
- DS778.M3
- LC item number
-
- D326 2013
- D37 2013
- D332 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Very short introductions
- Series volume
- 348
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Mao, Zedong
- Mao, Zedong
- Heads of state
- Revolutionaries
- Communists
- Communists
- Heads of state
- Revolutionaries
- China
- Label
- Mao : a very short introduction, Delia Davin
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming a revolutionary -- Organizing revolution -- Yan'an -- First years of the People's Republic -- The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks -- The Cultural Revolution : it's right to rebel -- Decline and death -- Legacies and assessments: the posthumous Mao
- Control code
- ocn813540532
- Dimensions
- 18 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 142 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199588664
- Lccn
- 2012277501
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 99954282395
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)813540532
- Label
- Mao : a very short introduction, Delia Davin
- Link
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-138) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Becoming a revolutionary -- Organizing revolution -- Yan'an -- First years of the People's Republic -- The Great Leap Forward and its aftershocks -- The Cultural Revolution : it's right to rebel -- Decline and death -- Legacies and assessments: the posthumous Mao
- Control code
- ocn813540532
- Dimensions
- 18 cm.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xvi, 142 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199588664
- Lccn
- 2012277501
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 99954282395
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)813540532
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