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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 Mao Zedong pronounced ; also romanised traditionally as Mao Tse-tung. (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) ...
'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 ''
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American biographers American male biographers University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Chicago alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Historians of China {{US-historian-stub