She's a Chinese gusano with an axe to grind against the CPC and her books are anti-communist propaganda garbage, banned in China and for good reason. Apparently her book about Mao is so bad that even Henry Kissinger described it as grotesquely one sided. Actual historians call it a gross distortion of the records. It's full of fabrications and exaggerations she and her husband simply invented, comparable to Solzhenitsyn's notoriously made up fantasy stories about the USSR. Their atrocious historical methodology and misuse of sources would not be accepted even in a high school history class. I put her on the same level as other hateful hacks and pseudo-academics like Anne Applebaum or Timothy Snyder.
Thank you! Sounds like a good primer.
I'm not on the mood for 700 pages of grotesque cherrypicking research. I'll probably skim the index and check few chapters, but certainly not the whole thing.
Is there any other similar but honest biography of Mao?
this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
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