Becoming Madame Mao

Description

A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.

Subjects

Married women Fiction Stateswomen History Spouses of heads of state Statesmen Chiang, Ching, 1910- Fiction, general China, fiction Fiction, historical, general Fiction, political

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