ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with Mao Tse-tung's narration in a pre-revolution China. It highlights how and when Mao wrote his article which was posted in the school wall and was his first expression of a political opinion even though it was a little muddled. The anti-foreign-capital movement gave rise to anti-Manchu sentiments by a rebellion by school students to clipping off their pigtails. Mao also narrates a period of self-education when he read many books and read Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, and Darwin’s Origin of Species, and a book on ethics by John Stuart Mill. The chapter also quotes Mao on how built up a group of students around himself to form the nucleus of what later was to become a society that was to have a widespread influence on the affairs and destiny of China.
