"Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893\u20131976) written by the husband and wife team of writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, and depicts Mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.In conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of people who were close to Mao Zedong at some point in his life, used recently published memoirs from Chinese political figures, and explored newly opened archives in China and Russia. "@en . "Mao: The Unknown Story"@en . . . . . . "978-0224071260" . . "814"^^ .