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1. 1. Mao

   

   A concise, source-driven biography that traces his rise from rural Hunan to the summit of the Chinese Communist Party, using Chinese-language archives to portray a complex leader whose strategic skill, political cunning, and ideological fervor helped create the People’s Republic while also producing devastating policies such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution; the narrative explores his personal relationships, decision-making style, and moral contradictions to show how monumental achievements and mass suffering were intertwined in his rule.

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