The first global history of Maosim that explores Maos' life, ideas, influence and legacy as a power that shaped the world well beyond the borders of China.
Julia Lovell is Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College,
University of London.
Her two most recent books are The Great Wall and The Opium War
(which won the 2012 Jan Michalski Prize). Her many translations of
modern Chinese fiction into English include Lu Xun's The Real Story
of Ah Q, and other Tales of China (2009). She is currently
completing a new translation of Journey to the West by Wu
Cheng'en.
She writes about China for several newspapers, including the
Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
Revelatory and instructive… [a] beautifully written and accessible
book
*The Times*
There is not a dull sentence in this scintillating and wry account
of the global impact of Maoism
*Evening Standard, *Book of the Week**
Wonderful
*New Statesman*
An exciting, alternative history of the 20th century that deviates
from the well-rehearsed narrative that relays between Washington
and Moscow
*Financial Times*
A landmark work giving a global panorama of Mao's ideology filled
with historic events and enlivened by striking characters
*Jonathan Fenby, author of The Penguin History of Modern China*
Julia Lovell has given us a masterful corrective to the greatest
misconception about today’s China. For too long, visitors who
marveled at China’s new luxuries and capitalist zeal assumed that
Maoism had gone the way of its creator. That was a mistake.
Lovell’s account - eloquent, engrossing, intelligent - not only
explains why Xi Jinping has revived some of Mao’s techniques, but
also why Mao's playbook for the “People’s War” retains an
intoxicating and tragic appeal to marginalized people the world
over
*Evan Osnos, author of The Age of Ambition*
Lovell takes us on an exhilarating journey, tracing the spread of
Maoist theories across South-east Asia and then Africa, ending up
in today’s China… The historical sweep of this book is
impressive
*Literary Review*
Lovell has produced a work which may well be the most harrowing,
fascinating and occasionally hilarious book on the subject thus
far
*Scotland on Sunday*
Lovell is an accomplished storyteller with a nuanced and
sophisticated understanding of China’s relationship with itself and
the world
*Prospect*
Lovell has a gift for compressing long and convoluted histories via
just the right stories, characters, moments, and statistics… In
vivid, often grim detail, Lovell shows us how and why Maoism has
proven better, both inside and outside China, at attacking state
infrastructure than building it up
*Daily Telegraph*
Lovell breaks new ground and does so in a wonderfully well-written
account packed with horrors, extraordinary characters and
occasionally macabre humour
*Tablet*
Lovells’s descriptions of…global strands of Maoism are
well-researched and colourful
*Economist*
Highly readable and well-researched book… timely
*New Statesman*
A fascinating account of the influence of Maoism, during the cold
war and beyond
*Financial Times, *Books of the Year**
[A] superb and chilling study
*Sunday Times, *Books of the Year**
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