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An illustrated exploration of one of China's most controversial, influential, and polarizing figures in modern history.
It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China, and beyond national borders, with the history of communism as well. His version of guerilla warfare and revolution resulted in the construction of a socialist society that became a model of socialism throughout the world.
Both a tyrant and rebel, Mao wanted to rule through revolution. Yet the Big Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966) each plunged China into chaos without saving it from totalitarianism. After 1978, de-Maoization and economic reforms by Deng Xiaoping helped heal the country’s wounds, but the future yet remains uncertain. Whether to be an empire united or broken, serenely "open" or in conflict, democratic or authoritarian, egalitarian or prosperous—so many lingering questions remain of those that Mao and his generation began asking nearly a century ago. Was the Maoist Revolution futile? Would China have been better off without Mao—and is such a thing imaginable?
It has been more than a century since the birth of Mao Zedong. From the collapse of the old Chinese Empire in 1912 to the foundation of the People’s Republic in 1949, his history is linked with that of contemporary China, and beyond national borders, with the history of communism as well. His version of guerilla warfare and revolution resulted in the construction of a socialist society that became a model of socialism throughout the world.
Both a tyrant and rebel, Mao wanted to rule through revolution. Yet the Big Leap Forward (1958) and the Cultural Revolution (1966) each plunged China into chaos without saving it from totalitarianism. After 1978, de-Maoization and economic reforms by Deng Xiaoping helped heal the country’s wounds, but the future yet remains uncertain. Whether to be an empire united or broken, serenely "open" or in conflict, democratic or authoritarian, egalitarian or prosperous—so many lingering questions remain of those that Mao and his generation began asking nearly a century ago. Was the Maoist Revolution futile? Would China have been better off without Mao—and is such a thing imaginable?
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781623717155 |
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Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 09/26/2023 |
Series: | Interlink Illustrated Histories |
Pages: | 160 |
Sales rank: | 1,021,132 |
Product dimensions: | 5.10(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
Yves Chevrier is a professor of modern and contemporary Chinese studies at the School of Eastern Languages (INALCO) and at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He is the author of numerous books about 20th-century China.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Mao's Revolutions | 8 | |
Chapter 1 | China Between Two Worlds | 18 |
An Evolving Empire | 19 | |
Rebellion and Military Buildup | 25 | |
The Two Sources of Maoism | 26 | |
Adapt to Survive | 28 | |
The Short Spring of the Republic (1912) | 32 | |
Pre-modern Growth: China Opens Up (map) | 23 | |
The Great Massacre of the Hungry | 24 | |
The Long March of the Taiping (map) | 27 | |
The Rebel Hero | 29 | |
The Reformists and the Hundred Days | 34 | |
Sun Yat-sen and the Anti-Manchu Revolutionaries | 37 | |
Chapter 2 | A Country Boy Between Two Chinas (1893-1920) | 38 |
Apprenticeship | 40 | |
Toward Another Revolution | 42 | |
The Student | 48 | |
"Marx's Party" | 52 | |
The Universe of Mao (map) | 42 | |
The Movement of May 4th 1919 | 47 | |
Lenin Seen from China | 49 | |
The Great Union of Popular Masses | 52 | |
Chapter 3 | The Politics of Others (1921-1927) | 54 |
Hunanese Communism | 56 | |
The First United Front and Mao's Rise to Power | 58 | |
The Peasant's Path | 62 | |
The Disintegration of the United Front | 64 | |
A Difficult Spring: 1927 | 67 | |
The Mines of Jiangxi (map) | 57 | |
The Canton Base | 60 | |
The Class Front | 65 | |
The Warlords and The Northern Expedition (map) | 66 | |
Chapter 4 | The Rebel (1928-1935) | 72 |
Maoism's Debut | 74 | |
The "Frog at the Bottom of the Well" | 78 | |
The Wanderer | 83 | |
The Jinggang Mountains (map) | 76 | |
The Village Power Structure | 77 | |
The Soviets of Jiangxi (map) | 80 | |
The Long March and Its Legends | 84 | |
The Long March (map) | 85 | |
Chapter 5 | Empire Assumed (1936-1954) | 88 |
Resistance, the Cradle of Maoism | 89 | |
The Tools of Maoism | 95 | |
The Contradictions of President Mao | 99 | |
The Yanan Coalition | 102 | |
Military Conquest | 105 | |
Political Conquest | 109 | |
Xi'an and Wang Ming's Challenge | 91 | |
The Sino-Japanese War (map) | 93 | |
The ABC's of Maoism: The Right Line and Rectification | 96 | |
Contradictions | 101 | |
The Agrarian Reform (1946-1950) | 107 | |
Conquest (map) | 110 | |
Chapter 6 | Empire in Dispute (1955-1965) | 114 |
The High Tide of Socialism (1955-1956) | 117 | |
One Hundred Flowers (1957) | 119 | |
From the Great Leap Forward (1958) to the "Dark Years" | 123 | |
Despot in Danger (1962-65) | 128 | |
New Elites, New Inequalities | 117 | |
The People's Communes (1958) | 124 | |
Peng Dehuai's Challenge | 127 | |
Chapter 7 | The Shattered Empire (1966-1976) | 134 |
The Return of the Rebel (1966) | 136 | |
The Emperor Strikes Back (1967-68) | 140 | |
The Rupture (1969-76) | 145 | |
China After Mao | 151 | |
The Red Guards | 137 | |
Mao Zedong: A Post-modern Faust? | 145 | |
Chronology | 155 | |
Brief Biographies | 156 | |
Biographical Index | 157 | |
The Chinese Transcription | 159 |
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