In their new book, “Mao ̢┠The Unknown Story,” Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for a reevaluation of China’s leader Mao Tse-Tung as a tyrant worse than Stalin or Hitler. Chang and Halliday will discuss Mao’s role with Orville Schell, Dean of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and author of several books on China.
Based on a decade of research into previously untapped sources worldwide and on unprecedented interviews with Mao’s inner circle and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this book raises new questions about Mao’s role in the rise and success of the Chinese Communist movement. Jung Chang is the author of “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China,” a best-selling memoir that chronicles the sufferings of her family under Mao. Jon Halliday, her husband, is a British historian.