ABSTRACT
This book, first published in 1977, attempts to show Mao Tse-tung in his relationship with the Chinese people. The author makes extensive use of a number of interviews with a cross-section of Chinese people, as well as examining the written records made by foreign visitors.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|19 pages
Who are Our Enemies? Who are Our Friends?
The First Revolutionary Civil War, 1924—1927
chapter 3|41 pages
The Army of the Poor
The Second Revolutionary Civil War: The Kiangsi Base, 1927–1934
chapter 4|31 pages
A Manifesto, a Propaganda Force, a Seeding Machine.
The Second Revolutionary Civil War: The Long March, 1935
chapter 5|32 pages
Save the Country: Save the Revolution
The War of Resistance Against Japan: The Yenan Base and the United Front, 1936—1938
chapter 6|40 pages
To Serve the People
The War of Resistance Against Japan: The Yenan Base and Towards New Democracy, 1938—1945
chapter 7|24 pages
Filling the Holes and Levelling the Tops
The Third Revolutionary Civil War (the War of Liberation), 1945–1949
chapter 9|11 pages
The Clash of Models
The Great Leap Forward, the Communes and the Emergence of Two Roads’, 1958–1964
chapter 10|53 pages
The Beauty of Our Age
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and After, 1965–1976
