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Review title: Rather Watered-Down and Weak
Product review: For someone with a Guggenheim and a MacArthur Fellowship, as well as eleven books on Chinese history, Jonathan Spence leaves a lot to be desired in this brief sketch of Mao Zedong. Worse, the extent of Chinese history is interpreted around Mao, and the book leaves you wondering how China managed to survive after his death. That China is still on the map - and in the UN - is a strong rebuttal of the inferred conclusion that Mao was the highest point in Chinese history - if not the extent of Chinese history itself.A weak, narrative book that preoccupies itself with merely restating commonly known facts, this may be the kind of book you want on an eight-hour plane trip, but certainly not the kind a serious reader or scholar would want to come close to.- Benjamin Gene Gardner
