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Erotic, tragic saga of China's controversial First Lady.
If the complex tapestry of history and personal drama is what you're drawn to, "Becoming Madame Mao" could be a mesmerizing read for you. Anchee Min's portrayal of this infamous figure blurs the line between a thirst for power and a quest for love, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Cultural Revolution. It provides insight into how ambition and past trauma can shape a person into becoming an unforgettable and historical persona.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780618127009
Authors:
Anchee Min
Publisher: Mariner Books
Date of Publication: 2001-04-15
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.56
(rated by 5005 readers)
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In a sweeping, erotically charged story that moves gracefully from the intimately personal to the great stage of world history, Anchee Min renders a powerful tale of passion, betrayal, and survival and creates a finely nuanced and always ambiguous portrait of one of the most fascinating, and vilified, women of the twentieth century.Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon" -- ambitious, vindictive, and cruel -- whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Min's story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother's pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl. She later fled the miseries of her family life, first to a provincial opera troupe, then to Shanghai and fame as an actress, and finally to the arid, mountainous regions of Yenan, where she fell in love with and married Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.Min uses the facts of history and her lush, penetrating psychological imagination to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly, and whose ambition was matched only by her ferocious, never-to-be-fulfilled need to be loved. A daring narrative with all the compressed drama and high lyrical poetry of great opera, BECOMING MADAME MAO is the most ambitious and provocative work of Anchee Min's career.
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Erotic, tragic saga of China's controversial First Lady.
If the complex tapestry of history and personal drama is what you're drawn to, "Becoming Madame Mao" could be a mesmerizing read for you. Anchee Min's portrayal of this infamous figure blurs the line between a thirst for power and a quest for love, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Cultural Revolution. It provides insight into how ambition and past trauma can shape a person into becoming an unforgettable and historical persona.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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