Full Name Lee Feigon Name Lee Feigon | Occupation Historian, Sinologist Nationality American | |
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley, University of Chicago Books Mao: A Reinterpretation, Demystifying Tibet, Chen Duxiu - Founder, China Rising: The Meaning | ||
Known for Mao: A Reinterpretation | ||
Lee Feigon is an American historian who specialized in the study of 20th-century Chinese history.
In 2002 he published Mao: A Reinterpretation, a work of historical revisionism that sought to highlight what Feigon saw as the positive aspects of Mao Zedong's political leadership. He subsequently used that book as a basis for a documentary, The Passion of the Mao.
He has written for such U.S. publications as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, The Nation, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlantic, and The Boston Globe.
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