Jon Halliday

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Jon Halliday is a historian of Russia and was a former Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London.

Halliday authored a biography of filmmaker Douglas Sirk and has written and edited seven other books. He and his wife, Jung Chang, live in Notting Hill, West London. Together they researched and wrote the biography of Mao, Mao: the Unknown Story which received critical praise as well as serious criticism and spurred debate in the academic community.

Jon Halliday is the brother of historian Fred Halliday.^[1]

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• Sirk on Sirk: Interviews with Jon Halliday (Secker & Warburg 1971), ISBN 0-436-09924-1
• Japanese Imperialism Today: "Co-prosperity in Greater East Asia" (Penguin 1973), ISBN 0-14-021669-3 (with Gavan McCormack)
• The Psychology of Gambling (Allen Lane 1974), ISBN 0-7139-0642-1 (ed. with Peter Fuller)
• A Political History of Japanese Capitalism (Monthly Review 1975), ISBN 0-85345-471-X
• The Artful Albanian: Memoirs of Enver Hoxha (Chatto & Windus 1986), ISBN 0-7011-2970-0 (ed.)
• Mme Sun Yat-sen (Soong Ching-ling) (Penguin 1986), ISBN 0-14-008455-X (with Jung Chang)
• Korea: The Unknown War (Viking 1988), ISBN 0-670-81903-4 (with Bruce Cumings)
• Mao: The Unknown Story (Jonathan Cape 2005), ISBN 0-224-07126-2 (with Jung Chang)

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