Sunday, June 30, 2019

Book: Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence

Spence, Jonathan. 1999. Mao Zedong. Penguin Lives.

I have read several of the Penguin Lives mini-biographies and enjoyed them all for what they are. This one left me much more informed about Mao's life prior to the communist takeover in 1949 but not as informed as I would have liked about Mao's intellectual development in the years leading up to his serious involvment in the communist party. The good news is that several much thicker biographies await in the bookcase.

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