Winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize Revelatory and instructive . . . a] beautifully written and accessible book --The Times (London) For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao's revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People's Republic...