On August 2, 2005, Geoffrey York contributed the story on Jung Chang
and her husband Jon Halliday's 814-page biography "Mao: The Unknown
Story". Read the article in
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050802/MAO02/TPInternational/TopStories
An outline of the article:
* A shocking new book has concluded that Mao was
the bloodiest mass murderer in history, a sadistic
thug who enjoyed torture and was willing to
sacrifice half of China's population for his dream
of global domination.
* The book estimates that Mao caused the deaths of
70 million people in peacetime, making him a far
worse killer than Hitler or Stalin.
* It portrays him as a sociopath who loved killing
and allowed millions of peasants to starve to death
while he exported food to pay for his nuclear weapons;
a man whose legendary achievements in the Long March
were an invention; a man who turned China into a
cultural desert of misery and violence, while
maintaining dozens of luxury villas and a troupe of
female sexual partners.
* The book is to be published in Canada and the U.S.
in October 2005.
* Even the myth of Mao's heroism in the Long March
of 1934-35 is exposed as a sham. His Nationalist
enemies deliberately allowed his army to escape
along a prearranged 9,000-kilometre route, and Mao
himself was carried most of the way on a bamboo
litter.
