@article{304746,
      recid = {304746},
      author = {Chang, Jung, and Halliday, Jon.},
      title = {Mao : the unknown story /},
      publisher = {Knopf,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xiii, 814 p., [32] p. of plates :},
      year = {2005},
      note = {"Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape,  London"--T.p. verso.},
      abstract = {Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many  of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked  before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had  significant dealings with him--this is the most  authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of  startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long  March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not  driven by idealism or ideology; his intricate relationship  with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him  to power; he welcomed the Japanese occupation; and he  schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After he  conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate  the world. He caused the deaths of 38 million people in the  greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million  Chinese perished under Mao's rule--in peacetime. This  entirely fresh look at Mao will astonish historians and the  general reader alike.--From publisher description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/304746},
}