Was Mao really a monster? : the academic response to Chang and Halliday's Mao, the unknown story / edited by Gregor Benton and Chun Lin.

Contributor Benton, Gregor.

Imprint:Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York NY : Routledge, 2009.

Descriptionviii, 199 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Note:Introduction -- Part 1: Reviews in Non-Specialist Academic Publications -- 1. Dark Tales of Mao the Merciless -- 2. Jade and Plastic -- 3. Portrait of a Monster -- Part 2: 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 3: Reviews in Other Specialist Academic Journals -- 8. Mao and The Da Vinci Code: Conspiracy, Narrative and History -- 9. Mao: A Super Monster? Part 4: 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 5: Other reviews -- 13. Mao Lives -- 14. From Wild Swans to Mao: The Unknown Story.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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