Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min

Becoming Madame Mao

Anchee Min

306 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

fiction historical challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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This is an evocation of the woman who married Chairman Mao and fought to succeed him. The unwanted daughter of a concubine, she refused to have her feet bound, ran away to join an opera troupe and eventually met Mao Zedong in the mountains of Yenan.

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