Jon Halliday

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Halliday (left) and Chang (right) with Spanish politician Santiago Carrillo

Jon Halliday (born 28 June 1939) is an Irish historian specialising in modern Asia. He was formerly a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. He was educated at University of Oxford and has been married to Jung Chang since 1991. Halliday is the older brother of the late Irish International relations academic and writer Fred Halliday.[1]

Halliday has written or edited eight books, including a long interview with the U.S. film-maker

Mao: the Unknown Story, the story told therein is unknown because Chang and Halliday substantially fabricated it or exaggerated it into existence."[11]

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References

  1. ^ A harvest of sorrow
  2. ^ "Storm rages over bestselling book on monster Mao". the Guardian. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
  3. ^ Was Mao Really a Monster: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's "Mao: The Unknown Story" (London, New York: Routledge, 2010), p. 9, 11.
  4. ^ "A swan's little book of ire". The Sydney Morning Herald. 8 October 2005. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
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  7. ^ Cheek, Timothy (January 2006). "The New Number One Counter-Revolutionary Inside the Party: Academic Biography as Mass Criticism". The China Journal (55): 110, 118.
  8. ^ Pye, L. P. Mao: The Unknown Story, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005,
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  10. ^ Li, J. (2010), "Review of Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story, by G. Benton & L. Chun" in China Review International, 17(4), 408–412
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