Even before Mao Tse-tung's final illness, rumours of his wife Chiang Ch'ing's candid revelations to a Western writer shook the power stucture of the People's Republic. Then, barely six weeks after the Chairman's death, Chiang Ch'ing, together with three other senior officials, was arrested and branded an enemy of the Party and the state. Among the most serious charges brought against Mao's widow was her alleged betrayal of national `secrets' during a week-long private interview - some 60 hours in all - with Roxane Witke, an American scholar. This book is the outocome of this remarkable interview...