Lee Feigon is an American historian who specialized in the study of 20th-century Chinese and Tibetan history.In 2002 he published Mao: A Reinterpretation, a work of historical revisionism that sought to highlight what Feigon saw as the positive aspects of Mao Zedong's political leadership. He subsequently used that book as a basis for a documentary, The Passion of the Mao.He has written for such U.S.