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The Messiah and the mandarins : Mao Tsetung and the ironies of power

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The Messiah and the Mandarins shows how the very qualities that enabled Mao to become master of all China, after starting out with a few hundred ragged fugitives, prompted him to half-wreck his own creation once the fighting ended. With the People's Republic established, China needed mandarins to mend the ravages of three decades of civil war, but was stuck with the Messiah who had "liberated" her, a man whose visionary enthusiasm and brilliant improvisation left the country isolated, economically backward, poisoned by vendettas, and peopled by listless millions sick of sudden change.
Exciting, authoritative and compellingly readable, the book recounts such bewildering and cataclysmic episodes as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; reconstructs the fierce struggles between the Maoist disciples of perpetual revolution and the more cautious Communist mandarinate, led by Chou En-Lai; and puts in perspective the events that shook the world's most populous and enigmatic nation.

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Ketersediaan

PMKAA00768

951.05 BLO m

Museum KAA (China)

Tersedia

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

951.05 BLO m

Penerbit

Canada : McCelland & Stewart., 1982

Deskripsi Fisik

xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-689-11297-1

Klasifikasi

951.05

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Tipe Media

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Tipe Pembawa

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Edisi

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Subjek

China--Politics and government--1949-1976
Mao, Tsetung, 1893-1976

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

Dennis Bloodworth

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