Book on Mao

[Asero]

Does anyone know of any authoritative biography on Mao Tse-tung that is commonly accepted by bourgeois academia?

[Sixiang]

Yes there are many.

The most recent and most thoroughly researched biography of Mao in English is Alexander V. Pantsov and Stephen I. Levin's Mao: The Real Story, published in 2013 by Simon and Schuster. I would recommend it not for the author's ideological stances, but for the fact that their bibliography and notes sections are the most thoroughly researched ever, hands down. It also helps that Pantsov is fluent in Chinese and Russian and had access to Soviet archives, which brings in all kinds of interesting dynamics to the story. I think the consensus among bourgeois academics is that this is the most authoritative biography of Mao out there now.

Rebecca E. Karl's Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, published in 2010 by Duke University Press is a much shorter one, and readable one. Karl takes an explicitly leftist approach to her subject. And she is a part of bourgeois academia.

There were some other good ones in the past, but they are all outdated at this point.