ABSTRACT
This chapter narrates Mao Tse-tung's life before the Chinese Revolution. Mao accompanied some of the Hunanese students to Peking. However, although he had helped organize the movement, and it had the support of the Hsin-min Hsueh-hui, he did not want to go to Europe. Mao also used to read some pamphlets on anarchy, and was much influenced by them. With a student named Chu Hsun-pei, who used to visit him, Mao often discussed anarchism and its possibilities in China. In the winter of 1920, Mao organized workers politically for the first time, and began to be guided in this by the influence of Marxist theory and the history of the Russian Revolution. During his second visit to Peking, he sought out the little Communist literature that was available in Chinese, which deeply carved his mind, and built up in him a faith in Marxism.
