CHANG, Jung & HALLIDAY, Jon. Mao; the unknown story. Random House, Anchor. 801p. bibliog. index. c2005. 0-679-74632-3. $18.00. A
Jung Chang, acclaimed author of Wild Swans, and her husband, historian ion Halliday, spent a decade conducting interviews and archival research to deconstruct the myth of Chairman Mao, a myth that is on the whole still perpetuated by China's current Communist regime. Chang and Halliday's method: to consult every available archive, to listen to every ...