by Anchee Min · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422685555
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«Madame Mao» is the fictionalized biography by Anchee Min, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (328 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the life of Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong, from her rise to power to her role during the Cultural Revolution and her fall after the leader's death. It combines personal portraiture with the political context of 20th-century China, approaching one of the country's most influential and controversial female figures.
Published in 2000 in Barcelona, it is a translation by Aurora Echevarría of the original «Becoming Madame Mao».
A work for readers interested in historical biographies and in the political and cultural history of China.
Anchee Min is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.
