by Anchee Min · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447323814
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«Madame Mao» is the historical novel by Anchee Min, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback (320 pages, in Spanish).
As a child, Jiang Qing disobeyed her mother and freed herself from foot binding; years later she became an actress in communist cinema and ended up as the last wife of Mao Zedong. Anchee Min reconstructs her rise to power and her public image as a tyrant, offering a compassionate and complex look at one of China's most controversial figures.
The Spanish edition was published in 2002 within the Testimonios de Mujer collection; the original English title is Becoming Madame Mao.
Recommended for readers of historical fiction and biographies, with an interest in 20th-century China and its political figures.
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.
