Some books you might be interested in reading over the Christmas holidays are detailed below. Others can be identified in the carousel above, where clicking on any of the titles takes you straight to the relevant amazon page.
1. "The Private Life of Chairman Mao" is a slightly different look at Mao's life from his former physician - a little salacious at times, has proved popular with previous students.
2. The best single volume narrative history of this period - which in facts starts quite a bit earlier - is Jonathan Spence's excellent "Search for Modern China".
Rana Mitter's book "A Bitter Revolution" is of course linked above, and in earlier posts.
3. Jonathan Spence has also written a balanced short biography of Mao, which you may wish to use alongside Jung Chang's better known but very antagonistic book (see post below, and links above).
4. Quite an expensive book, but this one is an interesting and lively attempt to counter the anti-Mao bias of recent books; includes a chapter attacking Jung Chang's biography!
Don't forget to use the school library which has a number of relevant China books for loan as well, including Jonathan Fenby's general history, and a biography of Chiang Kai-Shek (more relevant for L6th stduents).
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