On KQED’s Forum program, host Michael Krasny interviews author Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, co-authors of “Mao: The Unknown Story.” You can listen live to the program on the KQED site. The audio archive should be available on the site later today.

From the New York Times: If Chairman Mao had been truly prescient, he would have located a little girl in Sichuan Province named Jung Chang and “mie jiuzu”- killed her and wiped out all her relatives to the ninth degree. But instead that girl grew up, moved to Britain and has now written a biography […]

From the New York Times: In their new book, “Mao: The Unknown Story,” Jung Chang and Jon Halliday make an impassioned case for Mao as the most monstrous tyrant ever. They argue that he was responsible for “well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other 20th-century leader,” and they argue that “he […]

From the Sydney Morning Herald: A tiny widow aged 85 living in two rooms, an electric rice-cooker her only modern appliance, may be a crucial witness to a dispute involving Jung Chang, the wealthy Chinese author of the worldwide bestseller Wild Swans. The dispute is one of many being picked up by some of the […]