Mao: The Unknown Story

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Our gratitude goes first to the several hundred interviewees, who provided us with vital information, as well as much color to bring Mao alive. None is responsible for any of the views expressed in the book.

The following people kindly sent us material, answered queries, effected introductions, or gave us other valuable help. To all of them we are most grateful. We regret that we have not been able to differentiate their contributions more distinctively. Our apologies for any omissions (including some titles), which we will be glad to correct in future editions. We feel very sad that those in Mainland China cannot be named, and hope that this situation will change one day.

Eric Aarons, Aldo Agosti, Aziza Allard, Kirill Anderson, Eugenio Anguiano, Oscar Armstrong, Kazuko Aso, Prof. Ivo Banac, Luciano Barca, Mr. & Mrs. C. D. Barkman, Antony Beevor, Edward Behr, Csaba Békés, Prof. Gregor Benton, Prof. Barton Bernstein, Prof. Charles Bettelheim, Praful Bidwai, Prof. Herbert P. Bix, Dennis Bloodworth, Nenne Bodell, Countess Resy Bonacossa, Dominique & Christian Bourgois, Horst Brie, Marina Brodskaya, Aleksandr Bukh, Boriana Buzhashka, Lord (Peter) Carrington, Prof. Carolle Carter, Fr. John Carven, Fr. Santiago Cepeda, Prof. Chang Yu-fa, Prof. Chen Jian, Prof. Chen Peng-jen, Prof. Chiang Yung-ching, Chin Hsiao-i, Chou Wei-peng, Thomas B. Cochran, Dr. Alex Colas, William Colby, Les Coleman, Prof. Richard Crampton, Bernard R. Crystal, Cui Kuang-chung, David Cutler, Prof. Alexander Dallin, John Paton Davies, Fr. Thomas Davitt, Prof. Wolfgang Deckers, Prof. Lev Delyusin, Jonathan Demme, Veselin Dimitrov, Prof. John Dower, Harald & Elke Einsmann, Carlos Elbirt, Robert Elegant, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Prof. Grant Evans, Edmund Fawcett, Prof. Roland Felber, Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang, Léo Figuères, Fou Ts’ong, Guido Franzinetti, Prof. Edward Friedman, Hiroaki Fujii, Tetsuzo Fuwa, Gao Anhua, Sam Gerovich, Patrick Gilkes, Siegmund Ginzberg, John Gittings, Antonio Giustozzi, Sir Alastair Goodlad, Aleksander Grigoriev, Tom Grunfeld, A. Guindi, Edward Gurvich, Dr. Jürgen Haacke, Lord Hailsham, David Halliday, Eric Hanson, Harry Harding, Dr. Hope M. Harrison, John Haynes, Dieter Heinzig, Sir Nicholas Henderson, Jim Hershberg, Fr. Jeroom Heyndrickx, Stefan Hermlin, Andrew Higgins, Lord (Geoffrey) Howe, Lord (David) Howell, Jason Hu, Peter Huber, Sir Christopher & Lady Hum, Jean Hung, Gen. & Mrs. I Fu-en, Lord (Peter) Inge, Ji Wei, Nelson Jobim, Monty Johnstone, Jong Fang-ling, Prof. Harold Kahn, Prof. Thomas Kampen, Hideaki & Toshikazu Kase, Maneesha Kaul, Prof. Pauline Keating, Dr. Edward Keene, Michael Keon, Vladimir Khanjenkov, Dr. Sergei Khrushchev, Prof. Ben Kiernan, Takuji Kimura, Gen. Yuri Kobaladze, Hanako Koyama, Ina Krymova, Rishat Kudashev, Dr. Peter M. Kuhfus, Boris T. Kulik, Kuo Kuan-ying, Kisho Kurokawa, Andrei Lankov, Eugene K. Lawson, Boyka Leader, Dr. Andrei Ledovsky, Dr. Milton Leitenberg, Rob Lemkin, David Lie, Helmut & Marianne Liebermann, Georges Liébert, Maria Sofia Lilli, Dr. Frederick Litten, Liu Shao-tang, Gary Lundell, Lorenz Luthi, Peter Lyon, Fr. Patrick McCloskey, Sir Colin McColl, Prof. Gavan McCormack, Prof. Ruth McVey, Ukeru Magosaki, John Maher, Sean Malloy, Prof. Giorgio Mantici, Anto Marden, Aglika Markova, Barry Martin, Fr. Michel Masson, Prof. James Mayall, Sonny Mehta, Werner Meissner, George Melly, Dr. Jonathan Mirsky, Eileen Moffett, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Kimitoshi Morihara, Aziz Naim, Kazuko Nakajima, Kujtim Nako, Premier Fatos Nano, Prof. Vitaly Naumkin, Richard Needham, Richard Neustadt, Ngo Manh Lan, Ngo Thi Minh-Hoang, Nguyen Co Thach, Masaki Orita, Prof. Alexander Pantsov, Gabriel Partos, Fr. James Perluzzi, Leonid S. Polevoy, Prof. David Pollard, Brian Pollitt, John W. (Bill) Powell, Lord (Charles) Powell, Wen & Michael Powles, Fr. P. Pycke, Sergey Radchenko, Prof. Kimmo Rentola, Lord (Gordon) & Lady Richardson, Florentino Rodao, Peter Rodman, Helge Ronning, Prof. Robert Ross, Lord (Jacob) Rothschild, Rosa Rust, Lord (John) Sainsbury, Akira Sakaguchi, Sang Ye, Bernd Schäfer, Fritz Schatten, Prof. Michael Schoenhals, Prof. Stuart Schram, Kathryn Seitz, Prof. Mark Selden, Aldo Serafini, Rostislav Sergeyev, John Service, Hugh Seymour, Prof. Shaw Yu-ming, Prof. Michael Sheng, Sokol Shtylla, Zamir Shtylla, Prof. Harry Shukman, Larry Shyu, Vasily Sidikhmenov, Boris Slavinsky, Daniel Southerland, Tilman Spengler, Sergei Stanishev, Sir Nicholas Stern, William & Jadwiga Stokes, Richard Stolz, Judy Stowe, Dr. Viktor Sumsky, Hideya Taida, Takashi Inoue, David Tang, Prof. William Taubman, Tsering Tashi, Dick Taverne, Fr. P. Taveirne, Jay Taylor, Prof. Frederick Teiwes, Anne Thurston, Victoria Tomkinson, Count Francesco Tonci, Tong Kraisak, Prof. Tong Te-kong, Thomas Torrance, Tania Tourlakova, Nasir Tyabji, Oleg Troyanovsky, Achin Vanaik, Nicholas Villiers, Lyuba Vinogradova, Stephen Vizinczey, Peter von Bagh, William Waack, Bob Walther, Wang Dan-zhi, S. G. Wheatcroft, J. Williams, Paul Wingrove, Wu Wei-shi, Jim Yang, Prof. Yu Maochun, Gen. Yu Song Chol, Joe Zhang, Prof. Zhang Shuguang, Dr. Valentina Zhuravlyeva, James Zobel, Suzanna Zsohar.

We owe a special thank you to: Aleksandr Borodin, William Burr, Prof. Chen Yung-fa, Prof. Fred Halliday, Col. James Jordan, Lida Kita, Dr. Alexandre Mansourov, Connie Rudat, Roger Sandilands, Andrei Sidorov, Konstantin Shevelyov, Viktor Usov, Michael Wall, Robert Wampler, Lisa & Stanley Weiss, Prof. Arne Westad, Col. William J. Williams, Xue Yi-wei.

We are immensely indebted to our editor at Knopf, Dan Frank, who did so much to improve the text, and whose thought-provoking queries led to the solving of major historical puzzles. Deep gratitude also to our editor at Cape, Dan Franklin; to assistant editor Alex Milner; to Steve Cox, who did an excellent line edit on the penultimate draft; and to all who worked on the book; to our agent, Gillon Aitken, and his associates and staff; and to our indispensable assistant, Alexandra Adamson.

It is impossible to exaggerate the role of Pu Zhang, who over the years bounced our ideas and hypotheses back at us with vigor and insight.