Mao: a biography

Childhood (1893-1910)

Knowledge for What? (1910-18)

Wider World in Peking and Shanghai (1918-21)

Organizing (1921-27)

Struggle (1927-35)

A Grip on the Future (1935-36)

Fighting Japan (1936-45)

The Sage (1936-45)

A Ripening Peach (1945-49)

"We Shall Put Aside the Things We Know Well" (1949-50)

Remolding (1951-53)

Building (1953-56)

Doubts (1956-57)

Tinkering with the System (1958-59)

Russia and Beyond (1958-64)

Retreat (1961-64)

The Furies of Utopia (1965-69)

A Tall Thing Is Easy to Break (1969-71)

Nixon (1972)

Fractured Vision (1973-75)

An Arrow Near the End of Its Flight (1976).