{"product_id":"maoism-9780099581857","title":"Maoism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJulia Lovell is Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer two most recent books are \u003ci\u003eThe Great Wall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Opium War\u003c\/i\u003e (which won the 2012 Jan Michalski Prize). Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction into English include Lu Xun's \u003ci\u003eThe Real Story of Ah Q, and other Tales of China \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). She is currently completing a new translation of \u003ci\u003eJourney to the West\u003c\/i\u003e by Wu Cheng'en.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe writes about China for several newspapers, including the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRevelatory and instructive… [a] beautifully written and accessible book\u003c\/b\u003e -- David Aaronovitch * The Times *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere is not a dull sentence in this scintillating and wry account\u003c\/b\u003e of the global impact of Maoism -- Michael Burleigh * Evening Standard, *Book of the Week* *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWonderful\u003c\/b\u003e -- Andrew Marr * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exciting, alternative history of the 20th century\u003c\/b\u003e that deviates from the well-rehearsed narrative that relays between Washington and Moscow -- Tanjil Rashid * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003elandmark work\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003eJulia Lovell has given us \u003cb\u003ea masterful corrective to the greatest misconception about today’s China\u003c\/b\u003e. 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 - \u003cb\u003eeloquent, engrossing, intelligent\u003c\/b\u003e - 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\u003cbr\u003eLovell takes us on \u003cb\u003ean exhilarating journey\u003c\/b\u003e, 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 -- Christopher Coker * Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003eLovell has produced a work which may well be \u003cb\u003ethe most harrowing, fascinating and occasionally hilarious book on the subject\u003c\/b\u003e thus far -- Stuart Kelly * Scotland on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eLovell is an accomplished storyteller with a nuanced and sophisticated understanding of China’s relationship with itself and the world -- Isabel Hilton * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eLovell 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 *\u003cbr\u003eLovell breaks new ground and does so in a wonderfully well-written account packed with horrors, extraordinary characters and occasionally macabre humour -- Chris Patten * Tablet *\u003cbr\u003eLovells’s descriptions of…global strands of Maoism are well-researched and colourful * Economist *\u003cbr\u003eHighly readable and well-researched book… timely -- David Priestland * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating account of the influence of Maoism, during the cold war and beyond -- Gideon Rachman * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *\u003cbr\u003e[A] superb and chilling study -- Dominic Sandbrook * Sunday Times, *Books of the Year* *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and timely work on one of the most influential and disruptive strands of Marxist thought: that of Mao Zedong… the book reveals the relevance of Mao to our current populist age * London Review of Economics, *Books of the Year* *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732311847255,"sku":"9780099581857","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099581857.jpg?v=1719996366","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maoism-9780099581857","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}