{"product_id":"how-the-red-star-rose-by-ishikawa-yoshihiro-9789882372078","title":"How the Red Star Rose","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil the present day, Mao Zedong's biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow's (1905–1972) account in \u003cem\u003eRed Star over China\u003c\/em\u003e for the route Mao travelled from early childhood through his youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow the Red Star Rose\u003c\/em\u003e introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. There is no reason that Mao Zedong the person himself would completely change by virtue of the publication of \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e. However, the external image surrounding him did completely change from before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIshikawa uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only Mao's image but of that of \"historical materials.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book also examines the situation prevailing after the collection of data and publication of \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e which played the definitive role in generating Mao's image and will investigate the various editions of \u003cem\u003eRed Star\u003c\/em\u003e in English, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602988318956,"sku":"9789882372078","price":133.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9789882372078-how-the-red-star-rose.jpg?v=1778051851","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/how-the-red-star-rose-by-ishikawa-yoshihiro-9789882372078","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}