Mao Zedong and Contemporary China: Exploring the World Where Truth Falls from the Heavens 9819717604, 9789819717606

Table of contents :
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Photos
1 Mao Zedong’s Philosophy and Thought: Pitfalls of His “Contradiction” and “Practice” Theories
1 The Structure of “On Contradiction” and “On Practice”
2 Practicality of Mao’s Philosophy
3 Evaluation of Mao’s Philosophy and Thought
4 Tricks and Pitfalls of Mao’s Philosophy: My Interpretation
2 Mao Zedong and Lu Xun: What If Lu Xun Had Survived the Revolution?
1 Mao Zedong’s Fury with Liang Shuming
2 The Hu Feng Incident
3 Lu Xun and Mao Zedong
3 Class Struggle Theory and the Mass Line: “Marxism” According to Mao Zedong
1 Revolutionary Struggle and Class: Characteristics of Mao’s Early Concept of Class
2 Changes in the Concept of Class after the Founding of the Country
3 Land Reform and Class Distinction
4 Masses, People, and the Mass Line
5 Class Struggle and Violence
4 The Development of the Anti-Rightist Struggle and Its Aftermath: Turning Point of the Chinese Politics during the Mao Era
1 Prehistory of the Anti-Rightist Struggle: A Hundred Flowers Blossom, a Hundred Schools of Thought
2 The Start of the Struggle
3 The Aftermath of the Struggle
4 The Reality of the Anti-Rightist Struggle: My Interpretation
5 The Great Leap Forward, the People’s Commune, and the Great Famine: Mao Zedong’s Fantasy with Disastrous Results
1 The Birth of the Great Leap Forward Policy
2 Development of the People’s Commune Policy
3 Famine and Starvation: Its Reality and Number of Victims
4 The Great Famine and Starvation: The Mechanism
5 What Was the Great Leap Forward?: My Hypothetical View
6 The Tragedy of Peng Dehuai: The Lushan Conference and Its Aftermath
1 The Reversal of the Great Leap Forward Policy
2 The Lushan Conference: Peng Dehuai’s Opinion Letter
3 Mao’s Criticism of Peng Dehuai
4 The Tragic End of Peng Dehuai
5 The Tragedy of Peng Dehuai: My Interpretation
7 Mao Zedong’s “Political Economy”: An Anatomy of His “Economics of Contradiction”
1 Characteristics of Mao’s Political Economics
2 Mao’s Economic Goals
3 Deng Xiaoping’s Economics
4 How to Evaluate Mao’s “Political Economics”
8 The Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong: The Outcome of a Revolution without Revolution
1 The Seven Thousand Cadres Conference
2 The Socialist Education Campaign
3 Launching and Expanding the Cultural Revolution: Its Mechanisms
3.1 The Cultural Revolution as a Sweeping Political Movement
3.2 The Mechanism of the CR Expansion: A Hypothetical Model
4 The Tragedy of the Cultural Revolution: Its Scale and Brutality
5 Evaluating the Cultural Revolution: What Was the Cultural Revolution?
9 Emperor Mao Zedong and Premier Zhou Enlai: A Brief Analysis of the Mao-Zhou Relationship
1 The Mao-Zhou Relationship during the Revolutionary Struggle
2 Mao-Zhou Relationships after the Founding of the Country
3 How to Evaluate Zhou Enlai: My Own View and Hypothesis
10 How Should We Evaluate Mao Zedong?: Mao Zedong and Contemporary China
1 Marxism as Religion, Mao as Guru
2 The Charisma of Mao Zedong
3 Mao’s Legacies to Contemporary China
4 The Character of Mao Zedong
5 An Evaluation of Mao Zedong: My Tentative View
Epilogue: Living in an Ah Q-Like World
References
Index

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