Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese People

Inbunden bok. George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1977. 418 sidor.

Mycket gott skick. Skyddsomslag i gott skick. Språk: Engelska. "Roger Howard presents Mao Tse-tung's life and the development of his thinking against the background of China's wider history. After covering Mao's early years, the Revolutionary Civil Wars in the 1920s and 1930s, and the historic Long March, he describes Mao's life and role in the Yenan period (1936-47) during the wars against Japan and the Kuonmintang. He then examines Mao's contribution to Land Reform and, after the communists came to power in 1949, to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He quotes extensively from eye-witness accounts, both foreign and Chinese and from Mao's own works, including his poetry, to provide a strong sense of Mao's personality, his life and the times through which he lived. Always he emphasizes how Mao's thought interlocked with the growing political consciousness of Chinese workers and especially the peasants, and he ends by examining the position of Mao and of China's revolution within the socialist movement generally. The books gets as close as perhaps an outsider can be to the spirit of the revolution of the Chinese people which Mao led for over forty years. It shows the birth and development of a great people's movement by constantly relating its leader to the life of the peasants who needed the movement most and who were its main supporters. It reveals too the life of a man who, while he by no means always had his own way, pursued his objectives with a tenacity unique aming this century's political leaders. It reveals a man compounded of loneliness and profound involvement in his country's destiny, a subtle manoeuvrer, a down-to-earth speaker, a man of hard-headed practicality and romantic vision, whose thinking deeply influenced a new generation of revolutionaries in China and elsewhere".