From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party

by Tony Saich and Tony Saich

Book Overview

A Project Syndicate Best Read of the Year

On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, the definitive history of how Mao and his successors overcame incredible odds to gain and keep power.

Mao Zedong and the twelve other young men who founded the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 could hardly have imagined that less than thirty years later they would be rulers. On its hundredth anniversary,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674988116
• ISBN13: 9780674988118
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"