The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao's Court

by Yuan-Tsung Chen

Book Overview

A personal account of life in the orbit of Mao and Zhao En-Lai and one woman's effort to tell what it was like to be at the center of the storm.

The history of China in the twentieth century is comprised of a long series of shocks: the 1911 revolution, the civil war between the communists and the nationalists, the Japanese invasion, the revolution, the various catastrophic campaigns initiated by Chairman Mao between 1949 and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197573347
• ISBN13: 9780197573341
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"