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"Madame Mao is almost universally known as the "white-boned demon" - ambitious, vindictive, and cruel - whose bid to succeed her husband led to the death of millions. But Min's story begins with a young girl named Yunhe, the unwanted daughter of a concubine who ignored her mother's pleas and refused to have her feet bound. It was the first act of rebellion for this headstrong, beautiful, and charismatic girl. She later fled the miseries of her family life, first to a provincial opera troupe, then to Shanghai and fame as an actress, and finally to the arid, mountainous regions of Yenan, where she fell in love with and married Mao Zedong. The great revolutionary leader proved to be an inattentive husband with a voracious appetite for infidelity, but the couple stayed together through the Communist victory, the disastrous Great Leap Forward, and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.". "Min uses the facts of history to take us beyond the myth of the person who so greatly influenced an entire generation of Chinese. The result is a complex portrait of a woman who railed against the confines of her culture, whose deep-seated insecurities propelled her to reinvent herself constantly."--BOO

Who reads Becoming Madame Mao?

Author

Becoming Madame Mao (v5.0) (mobi)

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618127009

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.56 / 5 (62 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14