This book presents the dramatic life of Mao Zedong, revealing a wealth of unheard-of facts: why Mao joined the Communist Party, how he came to sit at the top of the Chinese Communist Party, and how he seized China step by step. Writers Jung Chang and her husband Jon Halliday took ten years to complete this book, interviewing hundreds of Mao's relatives and friends, Chinese and foreign informants and witnesses who worked and interacted with Mao as well as dignitaries from various countries.
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This book by Taiwanese author Lung Ying-tai, published by Taiwan's <i>World Magazine</i> in 2009, is a detailed account of the history related to the period before and after the 1949 Nationalist-Communist Civil War from a literary perspective. After ten years of preparation, Long Yingtai traveled for 400 days to Changchun, Nanjing, Shenyang, Matsu, Taitung, and Pingtung to visit many survivors of the Nationalist-Communist Civil War.
