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About this book
Rethinking Mao offers an innovative perspective on the thought of Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight "rethinks" Mao by subjecting a number of controversial themes to fresh scrutiny. This book provides a sophisticated analysis of Mao's views on the role of the peasants and working class in the Chinese revolution, his theoretical attempt to make Marxism appropriate to Chinese conditions, and his understanding of the Chinese road to socialism. Knight includes a discussion of the theoretical difficulties in interpreting Mao's thought. Rethinking Mao represents a challenge to many of the conventional accounts of Mao and his thoughts. This book will appeal to
scholars and students of Chinese history and politics, as well as the history of Marxism in China.
scholars and students of Chinese history and politics, as well as the history of Marxism in China.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 - Introduction: Rethinking Mao
- 2 - On Questions of Method I: Rethinking Mao and the Mao Texts
- 3 - On Questions of Method II: The Marxism of Mao Zedong
- 4 - Working Class and Peasantry in Mao Zedong’s Thought, 1923—1945
- 5 - Politics and Vision: Historical Time and the Future in Mao Zedong’s Thought, 1937–1945
- 6 - Perspectives on Marxism and Social Change in Mao Zedong’s Thought: A Study of Three Documents, 1937—1940
- 7 - Mao Zedong and the “Sinification of Marxism”
- 8 - Mao Zedong on the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1949–1969
- 9 - From Harmony to Struggle, from Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong’s Thought
- Bibliography
- Index