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Becoming Madame Mao

Becoming Madame Mao

Becoming Madame Mao
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Becoming Madame Mao

by Anchee Min

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ISBN 10
0618004076
ISBN 13
9780618004072
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0618004076 . Sun faded spine on dust jacket ; 1st edition, 1st printing. The complex story of a Chinese woman who railed against the confines of her culture. A daring narrative set against the facts of history. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches; 320 pages .

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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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Bookseller
Lavender Path Antiques and Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
7683
Title
Becoming Madame Mao
Author
Anchee Min
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Edition
First Edition; First Printing
ISBN 10
0618004076
ISBN 13
9780618004072
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
2000
Keywords
0618004076, Fiction - Chinese Culture, CHINA - History - 20th Century, CHINA - Women -culture, CHINA - Mao Zedong
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