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Does anyone have recommendations on a good book dealing with Mao, China, and the rise of the Cultural Revolution? I've read Gulag Archipelago so was thinking of something along the lines of Solzhenitsyn's work. Did another read through of Three Body Problem after the show came out and so was interested and going back to read more non-fiction.

I found Mao's Last Revolution as a recommendation from another site, but thought I'd also ask here.
 

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Does anyone have recommendations on a good book dealing with Mao, China, and the rise of the Cultural Revolution? I've read Gulag Archipelago so was thinking of something along the lines of Solzhenitsyn's work. Did another read through of Three Body Problem after the show came out and so was interested and going back to read more non-fiction.

I found Mao's Last Revolution as a recommendation from another site, but thought I'd also ask here.
Frank Dikötter's trilogy, certainly:
  • The Tragedy of Liberation (the conquest of China by the PLC)
  • Mao's Great Famine (the Great Leap Forward insanity)
  • The Cultural Revolution (as it says)
That's the most in-depth work I've found about the Mao era. Dikötter has also lots more about modern China, but those three make the best work about Mao's immense damage to China, from 1945 to 1976.
 
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Frank Dikötter's trilogy, certainly:
  • The Tragedy of Liberation (the conquest of China by the PLC)
  • Mao's Great Famine (the Great Leap Forward insanity)
  • The Cultural Revolution (as it says)
That's the most in-depth work I've found about the Mao era. Dikötter has also lots more about modern China, but those three make the best work about Mao's immense damage to China, from 1945 to 1976.
Thanks!

Funny enough when I went to Amazon this was the first result. Now to remember if I read it 🤣

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If you have audible plus, that book is currently included with membership.
 
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Currently churning my way through this behemoth on Audible: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B00VXXUFYO

Few others I listened to before this:
Doom Guy by John Romero on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C47P1V8S

Liftoff by Eric Berger on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/0063067986

Great series*
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 by Ian W. Toll on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0062CHMRE


In my backlog:
The Quiet Americans by Scott Anderson on Audible. https://www.audible.com/pd/0593293355

The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains) by Charles Ball on Audible. The Life of an American Slave (Fifty Years in Chains)

The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party by Adam Jortner, The Great Courses on Audible. The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party
 
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