Becoming Madame Mao
by Anchee Min
Popularity 5
A fictional portrait of Jiang Ching follows her life from her youth as the unwanted daughter of a concubine, to her search for fame as an actress in Shanghai, to her marriage to revolutionary Mao Zedong, to her role in the turbulent Communist rule of China.
Married womenFictionStateswomenHistorySpouses of heads of stateStatesmenChiang, Ching, 1910-Fiction, generalChina, fictionFiction, historical, generalFiction, political