How long does it take to read Mao?
The Unknown Story
Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
Mao by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday takes about 15 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 46 minutes
A long haul
First published 2002. 860 pages, about 236,500 words.
32 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 26 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 46 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 27 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A biography of of Mao Zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regarding Mao's attitude toward women, Jung Chang (a woman) goes for it. For example... any normal biography of Mao, would take account of the movements of Mao's army as he took control of China but it is interesting that his army camped outside the town where his wife and son lived (had been abandoned, frankly) and he made no effort whatsoever to meet them. Little things like that give the reader insight into the character of Mao... along with his mass murders, of course.
Subjects: Biography, Heads of state, Politics and government, Communism, China, biography
