Book 2001

Becoming Madame Mao

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Language: English
Published: 2001

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A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.