Was Mao Really a Monster The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s Mao The Unknown Story 2009 1st Edition by Gregor Benton, Chun Lin ISBN 0415493307 9780415493307

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ISBN 10: 0415493307

ISBN 13: 9780415493307 

Author: Gregor Benton, Chun Lin 

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday was published in 2005 to a great fanfare. The book portrays Mao as a monster – equal to or worse than Hitler and Stalin – and a fool who won power by native cunning and ruled by terror. It received a rapturous welcome from reviewers in the popular press and rocketed to the top of the worldwide bestseller list. Few works on China by writers in the West have achieved its impact.

Reviews by serious China scholars, however, tended to take a different view. Most were sharply critical, questioning its authority and the authors’ methods , arguing that Chang and Halliday’s book is not a work of balanced scholarship, as it purports to be, but a highly selective and even polemical study that sets out to demonise Mao.

This book brings together sixteen reviews of Mao: The Unknown Story – all by internationally well-regarded specialists in modern Chinese history, and published in relatively specialised scholarly journals. Taken together they demonstrate that Chang and Halliday’s portrayal of Mao is in many places woefully inaccurate. While agreeing that Mao had many faults and was responsible for some disastrous policies, they conclude that a more balanced picture is needed.

Table of contents: 

Part I. Reviews in Non-Specialist Academic Publications

1. Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless
2. Jade and Plastic
3. Portrait of a Monster

Part II. Reviews in The China Journal
4. The Portrayal of Opportunism, Betrayal, and Manipulation in Mao’s Rise to Power
5. The New Number One Counter-Revolutionary inside the Party: Academic Biography as Mass Criticism
6. Pitfalls of Charisma
7. “I’m So Ronree”

Part III. Reviews in Other Specialist Academic Journals
8. Mao and The Da Vinci Code: Conspiracy, Narrative and History
9. Mao: A Super Monster?

Part IV. Chinese Reviews
10. Mao: The Unknown Story, A Review
11. Mao: The Unknown Story: An Intellectual Scandal
12. A Critique of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story

Part V. Other Reviews
13. Mao Lives
14. From Wild Swans to Mao: The Unknown Story

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