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Jie Li
The book explores how Mao Zedong was shaped by his era and how he, in turn, profoundly influenced the 20th century. It delves into his life trajectory, drawing on documentary…
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Zhong Wen
For decades, Mao Zedong has been covered by the propaganda of the Communist Party, dressed up and painted with layers upon layers of makeup, and reinforced with each passing year…
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Baby Professor
Read about Mao Zedong and how he created China in this biography book for kids. Reading about how great men lived will help a child navigate through life. Sometimes dreams…
Mao Zedong
A selection of poem’s by the leader of the Communist Revolution in China and Commander in Chief of the National Army of Liberation.
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of…
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Kimberley Burton Heuston
Examines the life and misdeeds of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, charging that his efforts to turn China into an industrial powerhouse cost millions of lives and led to a devastating…
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United Library
This book provides an in-depth exploration of the life and work of Mao Zedong, one of the most influential figures in modern Chinese history.
Written from a unique perspective, it…
Chongji Jin,Xianzhi Pan
Volume 2 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1949-1958. This is a unique source through which to view…
Volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the period, 1958-1976. This is a unique source through which to view…
Zedong Mao
Contains poems themed around: expressions of decades of struggle of the poet, the loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the…
Jonathan D. Spence
This intimate portrait of Mao Zedong, one of the most formidable and elusive rulers in modern history, introduces the essential background about the Chinese leader, including his relations with family…
Wang Fanxi
With its clear and provoking thesis, this classic study of Mao has stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime…
An outstanding critical analysis of Mao Zedong’s political thought.
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Ann Malaspina
Describes the rise of Mao Zedong and the changes to China during the 20th century –
Comprehensively indexed and with an introduction newly written by the editor, a leading expert in the field, Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution is sure to be recognized as a…
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Mao Zedong and Lin biao, one is the giant of history, and the other is a famous general for one generation. They both…
Nick Knight
Rethinking Mao offers a innovative perspective on Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People’s Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing…
Mao Mao Zedong
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Zizek.
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This special edition contains the two most important essays by Mao on guerrilla warfare tactics in a new, completely uncensored format. As a revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong laid the economic…
Zedong Mao,Nick Knight
New and annotated translations of philosophical essays written by Mao Zedong in 1937, which have come to be regarded as a cornerstone in the development of Chinese Marxism. The editor…
Dramatic developments in the international communist world make a re-evaluation of Mao’s thought from a left perspective an urgent task. This book addresses this task, challenging the dominance of conservative…
Francis Grice
Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the…
Maurice Meisner
Revolutionary and ruler, Marxist and nationalist, liberator and despot, Mao Zedong takes a place among the iconic leaders of the twentieth century. In this new book, Maurice Meisner offers a…
Mary Ann Farquhar
This book introduces the major works and debates in children’s literature within the framework of China’s revolution and modernization.
A history of children’s literature in China, set in the framework of China’s revolution and modernization. Lu Xun and his brother Zhou Zhuren were the founding fathers of the idea…
Songsheng Zheng
Zou Yuejin
Xuanjun Xie
, " " , , , " " Synopsis: This book from the network, the "Mao Zedong phenomenon" for a variety of accounts, comments, analysis, the author is different, writing…
Qi Zheng,Dale Salwak
This book develops a new way of reading and benefiting from Schmitt’s legal and political theories. It explores Schmitt’s theories from the perspective of what I refer to as the…
Mao Tse-Tung,Mao Zedong,Samuel B Griffith,Zedong Mao
One of the most influential documents of our time, Mao Tse-tung’s pamphlet on guerrilla warfare has become the basic textbook for waging revolution in underdeveloped and emergent areas throughout the…
Robert Elliott Allinson (Soka University, USA)
The first in-depth exploration of the role Western and Chinese philosophy played in shaping the decisions, ideas and actions of Mao Zedong.
Jeremy Ingalls
Dragon in Ambush opens up Mao Zedong’s poems to a radically new interpretation as the corpus of his political ideology to reveal his grand design for total domination of the…
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The second half offers a selection of Mao’s writings - including such seminal pieces as On the New Democracy and selections from the Little Red Book - and writings about…
Volume 1 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao’s career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893-1949. This is a unique source through which to…
Xing Lu
Analyses Mao Zedong’s speeches and writings over a span of sixty years, tracing the sources and evolution of Mao’s discourse, analysing his skills as a rhetor and mythmaker, and assessing…
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Drawing on an array of references from contemporary culture and politics, this work includes commentary that reaches conclusions about the place of Mao’s thought in the revolutionary canon.
Mao Zedong,Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country, he ruled the People’s Republic of…
Patrick Lagneau
Une mysterieuse Sara convoque, au dernier etage d'un building situe 4857 Mao Zedong Avenue dans la megalopole sino-americaine de Washandong, Georges Boulanger, libraire en retraite et veuf, ainsi que plusieurs…
Earl Trotter
100 Poems from the Chinese spans more than 2500 years, from the Shijing to Mao Zedong. There is a preponderance of Tang poets and extra space has been given to…
