ABSTRACT
By 1936, after a decade of Civil War and even before the Xi'an Incident, Mao Zedong had begun talking about a "New Stage" of cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party. With the establishment of a framework for cooperation between the two parties, and as Japan began its brutal war against China, Mao began to develop this theme more systematically in both the political and military spheres. This volume documents the evolution of Mao's thinking in this area that found its culmination in his long report to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the Central Committee in October, 1938, explicitly entitled "On the New Stage" and presented here in its entirety. It was also during this period that Mao delivered a course of lectures on dialectical materialism after reading and annotating a number of works on Marxist theory by Soviet and Chinese authors. These lectures, from which "On Practice" and "On Contradiction" were later extracted, are also translated here in their entirety.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |570 pages
Texts
part |174 pages
1937
chapter |3 pages
On Lu Xun
part |394 pages
1938
chapter |71 pages
On Protracted War
chapter |84 pages
On the New Stage
part |97 pages
Lectures
part |164 pages
Commentaries
part |11 pages
Brief Sayings and Inscriptions (October 23,1937)