Some must get rich first
Colin Legum, 15 March 1984
The Heart of the Dragon
by Alasdair Clayre.
Harvill, 281 pp., £12.95, January 1984,0 00 272115 5 Show More
by Alasdair Clayre.
Harvill, 281 pp., £12.95, January 1984,
The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Vol. II: The Great Leap Forward 1958-1960
by Roderick MacFarquhar.
Oxford, 470 pp., £22.50, June 1983,0 19 214996 2 Show More
by Roderick MacFarquhar.
Oxford, 470 pp., £22.50, June 1983,
Son of the Revolution
by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro.
Chatto, 301 pp., £9.95, September 1984,0 7011 2751 1 Show More
by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro.
Chatto, 301 pp., £9.95, September 1984,
The Messiah and the Mandarins
by Dennis Bloodworth.
Weidenfeld, 331 pp., £9.95, October 1982,0 297 78054 9 Show More
by Dennis Bloodworth.
Weidenfeld, 331 pp., £9.95, October 1982,
The Cambridge History of China. Vol. XII: Republican China 1912-1949, Part I
edited by John Fairbank.
Cambridge, 1002 pp., £50, October 1983,0 521 23541 3 Show More
edited by John Fairbank.
Cambridge, 1002 pp., £50, October 1983,
The Middle Kingdom: Inside China Today
by Erwin Wickert.
Harvill, 397 pp., £12.50, August 1983,0 00 272113 9 Show More
by Erwin Wickert.
Harvill, 397 pp., £12.50, August 1983,
“... public park in Beijing to be closed so that she and her Gang could use it as a private estate. Dennis Bloodworth’s truly magisterial biography of Mao concludes that, for all his faults and mistakes, he was a founding emperor comparable to Quin Shi Huangdi or to Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty: ‘He was the right man at the right moment. A flawed ... ”
