ABSTRACT
Westerners and Japanese colonized Chinese and Chinese colonized Chinese. The deep intimacy of the reaction to modernization is well epitomized in the early life of the man who became the leader of the latest phase of Chinese modernization, Mao Tse-tung. This chapter presents a selection from Edgar Snow’s Red Star over China, from which one can see the same ambivalent respect-and-rage toward his father that Martin Luther felt. Mao refused to apply dogmatically the Marxist ideology developed to indict a more fully developed industrial economy. He insisted on founding the Chinese revolution among the peasants. Snow’s account gives us a close, nearly autobiographical picture of the development of Mao, the successful revolutionary.
