Mao: The Unknown Story, ( 2005 ), 814 pages, ISBN 0-679-42271-4

However, claims from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial Mao: the Unknown Story allege that Mao knew about the famine from the beginning but didn't care, and eventually Mao had to be stopped by a meeting of 7, 000 top Communist Party members.

According to Mao: The Unknown Story, an estimated 100, 000 people died in one of the worst factional struggles in Guangxi in January – April 1968, before Premier Zhou sent the PLA to intervene.

In Mao: The Unknown Story, Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim that as many as 3 million people died in the violence of the Cultural Revolution.

" In Mao: The Unknown Story, Chang and Halliday attributed all the destruction of the Cultural Revolution to Mao personally, with more sympathetic portrayals of his allies and opponents.

In Mao: The Unknown Story, Mao biographer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday estimate that perhaps 27 million people died in prisons and labor camps during Mao Tse-tung's rule.

Mao: The Unknown Story.

Mao: The Unknown Story.

* Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story ( London, 2005 ); Jonathan Cape, ISBN 0-679-42271-4

His biographers present him as an important link between China and the United States, but Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial biography, Mao: The Unknown Story, describes Snow as as Mao's " spokesman " and accuses him of supplying " myths ", claiming that he lost his objectivity to such an extent that he presented a romanticized and partial view.

Useful summary of Zhang's life based largely on Chang Jung, Jon Halliday, Mao The Unknown Story ( 2005 ).

* Jon Halliday, Russian historian and co-author of the book Mao: the Unknown Story

Halliday and Chang's new biography of Mao, " Mao: The Unknown Story ," contains a very different account of the New Fourth Army Incident in which they suggest Mao engineered the massacre in order to eliminate Xiang, whom he perceived as a rival.

The British-Chinese writer Jung Chang and her historian husband, Jon Halliday, in their 2005 biography of Mao, Mao: The Unknown Story, write that there was no battle at Luding Bridge.

* Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday

Mao: The Real Story.

His other books include The Shook-Up Generation ( 1958 ), Orbit of China ( 1967 ), War Between Russia and China ( 1969 ), The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad ( 1969 ), " The Gates of Hell " ( 1975 ), Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 ( 1978 ), Without Fear or Favor: The New York Times and Its Times ( 1980 ), Journey For Our Times ( autobiographical, 1983 ), China: 100 Years of Revolution, ( 1983 ), The Long March: The Untold Story ( 1985 ), Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June ( 1989 ), The New Emperors: China in the Era of Mao and Deng ( 1992 ) and his last, Heroes of My Time ( 1993 ).

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

In contrast, the East is ably led by such stalwart heroes as Khrushchev, Tito, and Mao.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

Mitter has observed that, ironically, today's China is closer to Chiang's vision than to Mao Zedong's.

* 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.

Nationwide political campaigns led by Mao, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, are often considered catastrophic failures ; and his rule is believed to have caused the deaths of 40 to 70 million people.

As a result, Mao is still officially held in high regard by many in China as a great political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation.

Mao is still regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, and was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine.

Yang was favourable towards Mao, writing in his journal that " it is truly difficult to imagine someone so intelligent and handsome him.

The " Three Worlds Theory " developed by Mao Zedong is different from the Western theory of the Three Worlds or Third World.

* November 7 – The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed by Mao Zedong.

* October 12 – The People's Republic of China announces that Hua Guofeng is the successor to Mao Zedong, as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.

* January 25 – Chiang Ching (" Madame Mao ") is sentenced to death in the People's Republic of China.

Yao boldly alleged that Hai Rui was really an allegory attacking Mao ; that is, Mao was the corrupt emperor and Peng Dehuai was the honest civil servant.

There is some evidence to suggest that Mao was pushed to seek closer relations with the United States as a means to avoid PLA dominance in domestic affairs that would result from a military confrontation with the Soviet Union.

Maoism, formally known as Mao Zedong Thought (), is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong ( 1893 – 1976 ).

Mao believed that human consciousness is the key factor in human history.

This belief, or the fervor with which Mao held it, separated Mao from the other Chinese Communists and led Mao onto the path of what Leon Trotsky called, " Messianic Revolutionary Nationalism " which was central to his personal philosophy and is demonstrated in his long-standing hostile relationship with ComIntern.

During the period immediately following the Long March, Mao and the Chinese Communist Party were headquartered in Yan ' an, which is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanxi province.

It was here that Mao summarized the correlation between Marxist theory and Chinese practice ; " The target is the Chinese revolution, the arrow is Marxism-Leninism.

Mao was born in 2005.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 郭沫若 ) ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 茅盾 ) ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the " League of Left-Wing Writers " and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; satirist and novelist Lao She ( 老舍 ) ( 1899 – 1966 ); and Ba Jin ( 巴金 ) ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

2000, Farjon 2005 ; a more complete phylogeny, based on 10, 000 nucleotides of plastid, mitochondrial, and nuclear sequence from 122 species, representing all genera is provided in Mao et al.

* From Ike to Mao and Beyond: My Journey from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist ( 2005 ), ISBN 978-0-9760236-2-3

Mao is a co-founder of CNBlog. org and a co-organizer of the Chinese Blogger Conference ( 2005 in Shanghai, 2006 in Hangzhou ).

According to Chang's book, Russian archives released in 2005 indicate that Mao once told an envoy of Joseph Stalin that his forces had destroyed 30, 000 of Zhang's troops.

Among the major writers of the period were Guo Moruo ( 1892 – 1978 ), a poet, historian, essayist, and critic ; Mao Dun ( 1896 – 1981 ), the first of the novelists to emerge from the League of Left-Wing Writers and one whose work reflected the revolutionary struggle and disillusionment of the late 1920s ; and Ba Jin ( 1904 – 2005 ), a novelist whose work was influenced by Ivan Turgenev and other Russian writers.

Professor R. J. Rummel published updated figures on worldwide democide in 2005, stating that he believed Chang and Halliday's estimates to be mostly correct and that he had revised his figures for China under Mao accordingly.

Mao: The Unknown Story was on the Sunday Times bestseller list at number 2, in July 2005.

*" The Mao That Roared " by Adi Ignatius, TIME, October 23, 2005

* Mao: The Unknown Story ( Jonathan Cape 2005 ), ISBN 0-224-07126-2 ( with Jung Chang )

Image: Jin Mao Tower. jpg | Jin Mao Tower from the Oriental Pearl Tower, with the SWFC under construction in 2005