Why, in spite of its long list of crimes* and the reality of modern China, does Maoism continue to attract adherents among revolutionaries in the US? Part of the answer is that …
China has witnessed massive suffering in her modern trans formation. Without exaggeration or a stretch of the imagi nation, an examination of the frequency and magnitude of …
Mao Zedong played a central role in leading the largest communist revolution in the world outside the Soviet Union and in the 'creative developments' or 'Sinification'of Marxist-Leninist …
Mao was the great revolutionary leader, the man who transformed China, overthrew the capitalist system, destroyed the republican regime of the Nationalist government, eliminated …
X Lu - The History of Evil in the Early Twentieth Century, 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The revolution led by the Chinese Communist Party was believed by many to be one of history's greatest wars against evil. Yet, unlike most revolutions, the Chinese communist …
M Schoenhals, R MacFarquhar - 2006 - lup.lub.lu.se
In a masterly book, Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals explain why Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, and show his Machiavellian role in masterminding it …
G Wenqian - International New York Times, 2013 - go.gale.com
NEW YORK--Thursday marks the 120th birthday of Mao Zedong, founding father of the People's Republic of China, but the leadership's celebrations of his legacy are an alarming …
JA Rapp - China Review International, 2008 - muse.jhu.edu
This book seeks to exploit two openings for defenders of state socialism who want to save Mao Zedong as a legitimate exponent of Marxist-Leninist thought. The first opening is the …
F Lanza - Chinese Ideology, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter looks at the long sixties, when intellectuals, students, independence fighters, and workers all over the world looked at Maoist China as the possibilities of an alternative …