Goodbye Chairman Mao - Hardcover

New, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069810918X ISBN 13: 9780698109186

Publisher: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1979

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From the Author:

The Lin Piao incident, as it is known, occurred when Mao's chosen heir at the height of the Cultural Revolution, disappeared and was said to have died in a plane crash while fleeing to Russia. Very few reliable details have ever emerged and I began writing the novel to suggest a plausible context for Lin Piao's mysterious death. As usually happens, many sub-plots, themes and characters came to my mind and in the end the novel is as much about the embitttered John Coombs, a cryptoanalyst recruited to help the British Government, as it is about Lin Piao and his alleged plot against Mao.

About the Author:

Author of a number of highly praised novels set in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Christopher New was born in England and educated at Oxford and Princeton Universities. Formerly Head of the Philosophy Department at Hong Kong University, he is also the author of The Philosophy of Literature and numerous philosophical articles. After many years in Hong Kong, he now divides his time between Europe and Asia

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