Jon Halliday

Jon Halliday (born 1939) is an Irish historian specialising in modern Asia. He was formerly a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at King's College London. Halliday has written or edited eight books, including a long interview with the U.S. film-maker Douglas Sirk. In addition, he and his wife, Jung Chang, with whom he lives in Notting Hill, West London, researched and wrote a biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: the Unknown Story, which received praise from the popular press, historians and scholars but also widespread criticism from many scholars and historians in the Western world and China for what they describe as questionable factual accuracy, methodology and use of sources.Halliday is the older brother of the late Irish International relations academic and writer Fred Halliday.He was educated at University of Oxford and has been married to Jung Chang since 1991.