The Death of Mao
by James Palmer
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Pub Date 19 Jan 2012 | Archive Date 1 Sep 2012
Description
Summer 1976
China is in the aftermath of a deadly earthquake.
Chairman Mao Zedong is dead.
Who will take control and where will it lead?
In the summer of 1976, as Mao lay dying, China was struck by one of the worst earthquakes in recorded history. Half a million died in Tangshan, the shoddily built mining city at its epicentre.
But the Communist rulers in Beijing were distracted - paralysed by in-fighting over who would take control after Mao's death. Would the Gang of Four, led by Mao's fanatical wife, be allowed to continue the Cultural Revolution, which had shut China off from the world and reduced it to poverty and chaos? Or would Deng Xiaoping and his reformist friends take control and open China up to the market, and end the near permanent state of civil war?
A major work of Cold War history, The Death of Mao captures the tensions of the summer when China's future hung in the balance.
James Palmer lives in Beijing. He has interviewed many survivors of the Tangshan earthquake and of the Communist Party struggles of that crucial year.Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780571243990 |
| PRICE | £0.00 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 284 |
