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Rethinking Mao: Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought

Nick Knight

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Rethinking Mao offers a innovative perspective on 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 his controversial concepts to fresh scrutiny.

Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 1966-1976 (Studies on Contemporary China)

Keith Forster

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Critical Perspectives on Mao Zedong's Thought

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Mao for Beginners (A Writers & Readers Beginners Documentary Comic Book)

Rius, Friends

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nice introduction 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 8 people found this review helpful.

This book is a pretty good introduction to Mao and the history of modern China. It actually seems to focus more on the history of modern China than Mao. Unlike other volumes in this series, the graphics in this book do not make fun of their subject, but neither do they help to remember the subject any more than just the text does. Overall, I'd say if you have an interest in how China got to be the way it is today, than this book would be a good one to pick up.

The Critique of Ultra-Leftism in China, 1958-1981

William A. Joseph

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Post-Mao China: From Totalitarianism to Authoritarianism?

Sujian Guo

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Guo challenges the predominant view that post-Mao China has moved away from communist totalitarianism and that totalitarianism is an outdated paradigm for China studies. He seeks to reconstruct a plausible macro-model in conceptual and comparative terms for defining "regime identity" and assessing the nature of regime change. Professor Guo then applies the model to the study of regime change in post-Mao China and reevaluates post-Mao changes across the five major empirical aspects of regime change (political, ideological, economic, legal, and social) and the most critical dimensions of each. The findings of Guo's study demonstrate that the practice of post-Mao reforms remains rooted in and committed to the "hard core" of Chinese communist totalitarianism and that the regime has attempted to revive many typical totalitarian practices. Most essential or core elements of the idea, practice, and institution of totalitarianism remain essentially unchanged in all major aspects of the post-Mao regime, though the post-Mao regime does suffer from a certain degree of "regime weakening" in its adjustments of the action means or "protective belt" of defending the hard core of the communist totalitarian regime. A controversial and essential analysis for scholars, researchers, and policy makers involved with contemporary China.

Dictionary of the Political Thought of the People's Republic of China (Studies on Contemporary China)

Henry Yuhuai He

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Marxism, Maoism, and Utopianism: Eight Essays

Maurice J. Meisner

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Chinese Politics after Mao: Development and Liberalization, 1976 to 1983

Peter R. Moody

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The Chinese Communists' Road to Power: The Anti-Japanese National United Front, 1935-1945 (East Asian Historical Monographs)

Shum Kui-Kwong

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Using Chinese, Japanese, and Western sources, this book reexamines the intraparty politics of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935 to 1945. Focusing on the Anti-Japanese national united front policy, the author makes an important contribution to the continuing debate about the success of the Chinese Communist Party.