Abstract When Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the
Chinese Communist Party since 1943, died on September 9th, 1976, China was in the midst …

December 26 is the 120th anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, typically a date of great
celebration in China. But this year the Chinese government seems somewhat ambivalent …

For radicals in Europe and North America, the anti-imperialist—and Chinese—revolutions
continued the great task of 1789, 1848, and 1870, the “bourgeois revolution” in Marx's terms …

Mao Zedong was indisputably one of the most important figures of the twentieth century. The
revolution he led transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of Chinese and, as this study …

The two years following the death of Mao saw much confusion in the Party. Legitimacy had
been damaged by the Cultural Revolution notion that the Party, rather than being a pure …

What can the life of a notable figure tell us about the experience of a people or a country?
And how can we get at that life-get access to the thoughts and goals of a leader? This book …

HOWARD BOORMAN, in his excellent article, scratches the lacquer from the image of Mao
Tse-tung. In the process he finds that foreign invasion (Japanese imperialism) and social …

Zedong, the Western press has often referred to the process of" de-Maoification" being
carried out by the leadership of the Chinese Communist party under China's de facto leader …

In 1949, Mao Zedong came to power in China after a long and brutal civil war. He and his
Chinese Communist Party immediately set out to transform their nation into a Communist …

Today the People's Republic of China is celebrating the 65th anniversary of its founding on
October 1, 1949, which is likely to produce even bigger crowds of protesters in Hong Kong …