“Whether this book is largely fiction - as many a patriotic Chinese will insist - or historically accurate as the rest of the world seems to agree, the point of "MAO: The Unknown Story is to spur a healthy dialogue and intellectual debate of Chairman Mao Zedong's controversial past. Of course, dialogue and debate are pretty much outlawed in present day China (thanks to Mao himself), so unfortunately China has self-excluded itself from further discourse on the matter.”
