Mao Zedong: Volume 1, 1893–1949: A Biography (The Cambridge China Library)

Cambridge University Press, 2/27/2020
EAN 9781107092723, ISBN10: 1107092728

Hardcover, 1018 pages, 23.1 x 16.5 x 4.8 cm
Language: English

Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. This 'living legacy' is the subject of intense, ongoing debate both within China and throughout the rest of the world. Here, volume 1 of the only biography of Mao written with full access to the Chinese Communist Party Archives to date is presented in English translation. This volume, the first of three undertaken by the historians of the Party Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, covers Mao's career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893–1949. As an extended official account of Mao, and Mao's thought, this work offers a unique source through which to view the Chinese Communist Party's portrayal of the transformative events of the twentieth century and Mao's pivotal role therein.

Preface
Introduction Tim Cheek
1. Leaving home
2. The college student
3. Baptized by the great tide of the May Fourth Movement
4. Man of action in the early years of party building
5. Work inside the Guomindang
6. March towards the Peasant Movement
7. The thunder of an uprising
8. Ascent to Jinggang mountains
9. Opening base areas in South Jiangxi and West Fujian
10. Opposing bookism
11. The Red Army attacks not Nanchang but Ji'an
12. Smashing three 'encirclement and suppression' campaigns
13. Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government (I)
14. Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government (II)
15. The long march
16. Laying a foundation in the Northwest
17. Before and after the Xi'an incident
18. Summing up historical experience
19. Outbreak of the nationwide War of Resistance against Japanese aggression
20. Guiding armed resistance behind enemy lines and 'on protracted war'
21. From the September meeting to the Sixth Plenary Session
22. The struggle against friction
23. The theory of new democracy
24. Before and after the Southern Anhui incident
25. Building up the border region and surmounting difficulties
26. The rectification Movement (I)
27. The rectification Movement (II)
28. Proposal for a coalition government
29. Struggling for final victory in the War of Resistance
30. Chongqing Negotiations
31. Peace or war?
32. After the outbreak of a Nationwide Civil War
33. Greeting the new high tide of the Chinese Revolution
34. Going over to the strategic offensive
35. Eastwards to Xibaipo
36. Eve of the decisive battle
37. In the days of the Great Decisive Battle (I)
38. In the days of the Great Decisive Battle (II)
39. Carrying the revolution through to the end
40. Preparing the founding of new China.