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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 December 2009
      13 July 1989
      ISBN:
      9780511521454
      9780521310628
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521454
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.389kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
      Series:
      Contemporary China Institute Publications
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
    Series:
    Contemporary China Institute Publications
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    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 book examines the unfolding of Mao's ideas, and in so doing sheds 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'. Professor Schram 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, but underscoring also the irrationality of the Great Leap strategy, and the destructive consequences of the personality cult, which led in the end to a combination of anarchy and despotism.

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