Mao: A Biography: Revised and Expanded EditionStanford University Press, 1999 - 571 Seiten Everyone who came in close contact with Mao was taken aback at the anarchy of his personal ways. He ate idiosyncratically. He became increasingly sexually promiscuous as he aged. He would stay up much of the night, sleep during much of the day, and at times he would postpone sleep, remaining awake for thirty-six hours or more, until tension and exhaustion overcame him. Yet many people who met Mao came away deeply impressed by his intellectual reach, originality, style of power-within-simplicity, kindness toward low-level staff members, and the aura of respect that surrounded him at the top of Chinese politics. It would seem difficult to reconcile these two disparate views of Mao. But in a fundamental sense there was no brick wall between Mao the person and Mao the leader. This biography attempts to provide a comprehensive account of this powerful and polarizing historical figure. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 13 |
Prologue | 28 |
Knowledge for What? 191018 | 47 |
Wider World in Peking and Shanghai 191821 | 65 |
Organizing 192127 | 87 |
Struggle 192735 | 121 |
A Grip on the Future 193536 | 151 |
Fighting Japan 193645 | 169 |
Tinkering with the System 195859 | 293 |
Russia and Beyond 195864 | 311 |
Retreat 196164 | 323 |
The Furies of Utopia 196569 | 339 |
A Tall Thing Is Easy to Break 196971 | 369 |
Nixon 1972 | 389 |
An Arrow Near the End of Its Flight 1976 | 435 |
Epilogue | 459 |
The Sage 193645 | 187 |
A Ripening Peach 194549 | 205 |
We Shall Put Aside the Things We Know Well | 226 |
Remolding 195153 | 243 |
Building 195356 | 255 |
Doubts 195657 | 273 |
Reference Notes | 489 |
337 | 518 |
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