'A landmark work 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 ChinaSince the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism.
The ideas, influence and legacy of Maoism are taken stock of in this global history, going into the Cold War, the Vietnam War, Paris's 5th Arrondissement and the movement's present-day violent rebirth.
