Jung Chang's and Jon Halliday's biography of Mao Zedong called "MAO: The Untold Story" is an important book in ways not envisaged by most biographies. Chang's first book, "Wild Swans: Three Daughters ...

From the International Herald Tribune: The book might at first seem an odd choice for Bush, whose taste in biography, like that of other U.S. presidents, runs to previous occupants of the Oval Office.

Ding Xueliang spent his early teenage years in China as a fervent believer and practitioner of Chairman Mao Zedong’s revolutionary ideals — but he never imagined those memories would one day be ...