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This eighth volume covers the period 1942 to 1945 when Mao asserted
his status as the incarnation and symbol of the Chinese Revolution
and the sinification of Marxism-Leninism.
Revolution in its Leninist guise has been a dominant force in the
world for most of the 20th century, and the Chinese revolution has
been, with the Russian revolution, one of its two most important
manifestations. Mao Zedong, the architect of victory in China in
1949, stands out as one of the dominant figures of the century.
Guerilla leader, strategist, conqueror, ruler, poet and
philosopher, he placed his imprint on China, and on the world. Even
though today communism is widely seen as bankrupt, Mao Zedong's
achievements as an innovative disciple of Lenin and Stalin in the
most populous nation on earth guarantees his place in history.
Whatever the ultimate fate of communism in China, the fact of Mao's
influence on events during more than five decades, and its
resonance after his death, will remain. This edition of Mao
Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words
regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all
available Chinese sources, including not only the 20-volume edition
published in Tokyo years ago, but many new materials issued in
China since 1978, both openly and for internal circulation. The
editors have pursued a threefold goal: firstly, to translate every
text by Mao which could be obtained, so as to make this English
version as complete as possible; secondly, to annotate the
materials in sufficient detail to make them accessible to the
non-specialist reader; and thirdly, to combine accuracy with a
level of literary quality which is intended to make the volumes
agreeable as well as instructive to read. Volume 1 includes
translations of the entire contents of the authoritative "Mao
Zedong Zaoqi Wengao 1912.6-1920.11" ("Draft writings from Mao
Zedong's early period, June 1912-November 1920"), published in
Beijing in 1990, plus some 15 additional texts for the same period
which have been attributed to Mao. Among the items thus made
available in English are his first surviving work, a middle school
essay of 1912 in praise of Shang Yang; his very extensive
"Classroom Notes" of late 1913 on the lectures of his most
influential teachers, Yang Changji and "Yuan the Big Beard"; a
dozen letters to his then close friend Xiao Zisheng (Siao-yu), who
described a shared odyssey in "Mao-Tse-tung and I were Beggars";
his marginal annotations of 1918 to the German philosopher
Friedrich Paulsen's work on ethics, in which Mao proclaimed himself
a believer in "individualism" and an admirer of Nietzsche; and many
important letters, articles, and other writings documenting his
evolution from liberalism to anarchism and finally to Marxism in
1919-1920.
Revolution in its Leninist guise has been a dominant force in the
world for most of the 20th century, and the Chinese revolution has
been, with the Russian revolution, one of its two most important
manifestations. Mao Zedong, the architect of victory in China in
1949, stands out as one of the dominant figures of the century.
Guerilla leader, strategist, conqueror, ruler, poet and
philosopher, he placed his imprint on China, and on the world. Even
though today communism is widely seen as bankrupt, Mao Zedong's
achievements as an innovative disciple of Lenin and Stalin in the
most populous nation on earth guarantees his place in history.
Whatever the ultimate fate of communism in China, the fact of Mao's
influence on events during more than five decades, and its
resonance after his death, will remain. This edition of Mao
Zedong's writings provides abundant documentation in his own words
regarding his life and thought. It has been compiled from all
available Chinese sources, including not only the 20-volume edition
published in Tokyo years ago, but many new materials issued in
China since 1978, both openly and for internal circulation. The
editors have pursued a threefold goal: firstly, to translate every
text by Mao which could be obtained, so as to make this English
version as complete as possible; secondly, to annotate the
materials in sufficient detail to make them accessible to the
non-specialist reader; and thirdly, to combine accuracy with a
level of literary quality which is intended to make the volumes
agreeable as well as instructive to read. Volume 1 includes
translations of the entire contents of the authoritative "Mao
Zedong Zaoqi Wengao 1912.6-1920.11" ("Draft writings from Mao
Zedong's early period, June 1912-November 1920"), published in
Beijing in 1990, plus some 15 additional texts for the same period
which have been attributed to Mao. Among the items thus made
available in English are his first surviving work, a middle school
essay of 1912 in praise of Shang Yang; his very extensive
"Classroom Notes" of late 1913 on the lectures of his most
influential teachers, Yang Changji and "Yuan the Big Beard"; a
dozen letters to his then close friend Xiao Zisheng (Siao-yu), who
described a shared odyssey in "Mao-Tse-tung and I were Beggars";
his marginal annotations of 1918 to the German philosopher
Friedrich Paulsen's work on ethics, in which Mao proclaimed himself
a believer in "individualism" and an admirer of Nietzsche; and many
important letters, articles, and other writings documenting his
evolution from liberalism to anarchism and finally to Marxism in
1919-1920.
By January 1939, following the Sixth Plenum, Mao had emerged as the
most important single leader of the Chinese Communist Party, but
had not yet reached the towering status that he achieved following
the Rectification Campaign and the Seventh Congress. During the
years 1939-1941, conditions became increasingly difficult for the
Communists, both because of intensified Japanese efforts at
"pacification", and because of deteriorating relations with the
Guomindang. This volume contains extensive documentation about the
Guomindang onslaught against the New Fourth Army in 1941, and Mao's
response to it. It also examines foreign affairs, as Mao struggled
to come to terms with contradictory developments such as the
Nazi-Soviet pact of August 1939, the Soviet-Japanese non-aggression
pact of April 1941, Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union, and war
between Japan and the United States.
By 1936, after a decade of Civil War and even before the Xi'an
Incident, Mao Zedong had begun talking about a "New Stage" of
cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party. With
the establishment of a framework for cooperation between the two
parties, and as Japan began its brutal war against China, Mao began
to develop this theme more systematically in both the political and
military spheres. This volume documents the evolution of Mao's
thinking in this area that found its culmination in his long report
to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the Central Committee in October,
1938, explicitly entitled "On the New Stage" and presented here in
its entirety. It was also during this period that Mao delivered a
course of lectures on dialectical materialism after reading and
annotating a number of works on Marxist theory by Soviet and
Chinese authors. These lectures, from which "On Practice" and "On
Contradiction" were later extracted, are also translated here in
their entirety.
This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides
abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and
thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources,
including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's
centenary.
This projected ten-volume edition of Mao Zedong's writings provides
abundant documentation in his own words regarding his life and
thought. It has been compiled from all available Chinese sources,
including the many new texts that appeared in 1993, Mao's
centenary.
This work offers translations of the material in Mao's 20 volumes,
and also gives translations of other materials released in Beijing
in 1993 on the occasion of Mao's centenary. The book opens with
Mao's conversion to Marxism and to the Soviet model of proletarian
dictatorship.
The most general and probably the most lasting expression of Mao Tse-Tung's contribution to the Chinese revolution was his thought. Stuart Schram's new book examines the unfolding of Mao's ideas, and in doing so sheds new light on other aspects of Mao Tse-Tung's life and times. The author traces the stages in the formation of Mao's thought from the May Fourth period through the Peasant Movement, the long years of armed struggle against the Kuomintang and the Japanese invaders, the foundation of a new state, his efforts to devise a "Chinese road to socialism," the Sino-Soviet split, and the so-called "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution." The author offers a fascinating and sure-footed analysis of Mao's intellectual itinerary, recognizing the positive value of the participatory and anti-bureaucratic thrust of his thought, and of his efforts to link Marxism with Chinese reality. This authoritative text is drawn from Volumes 13 and 15 of The Cambridge History of China, with the addition of a new Introduction and Conclusion written especially for the volume.
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