by Lucien Bodard · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782702819777
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«Le chien de Mao» is Lucien Bodard's biographical novel about Jiang Qing, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (538 pages, in French).
Jiang Qing, Mao's wife and a former actress from pre-war Shanghai, defines herself as 'Mao's dog': a woman who aspires to inherit the power of the Great Helmsman. The novel follows her rise amid seduction, betrayals and succession struggles, in a China shaken by the Cultural Revolution.
Published in 1998, it bears the subtitle 'Roman'.
For readers of historical fiction and biographies focused on figures of power and recent Chinese history.
Lucien Bodard was a Chinese-born French reporter, and writer on events in East and Southeast Asia, such as the Indochinese nations becoming independent from France, and the Vietnam War.
