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The Man, the Myth, the Message – New Trends in Mao-Literature From China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Thomas Scharping
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Mao at 100: Review Essay
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The China Quarterly , Volume 137 , March 1994 , pp. 168 - 179
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14. Feng Wenbin (ed.), Mao Zedong and Youth.

15. Zheng Yi and Jia Mei (eds.), Records of Mao Zedong's Life, pp. 79–91.

16. Quan Yanchi, Tears of the Leader.

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19. Jia Zhenqiu (ed.), Mao Zedong's Inspection Tours, pp. 195.

20. Ibid.

21. Guo Jinrong, The Last Years of Mao Zedong.

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27. Song Yixiu and Yang Meiye (eds.), Mao Zedong's Personal Relations.

28. The following monographs have been checked: Lu Haijiang and He Mingzhou (eds.), Mao Zedong and His Contemporaries, with 80 figures in Mao's youth as well as later acquaintances among renowned republican politicians, CCP leaders, scholars and foreigners; Jundao, Yu and Jie, Li (eds.), Mao Zedong jiaowang lu (Records of Mao Zedong's Social Contacts) (Beijing: Renmin chubanshe, 1991)Google Scholar, with 57 people of the same composition; Jianhua, Xue, Mao Zedong he ta de youpai pengyou (Mao Zedong and His Rightist Friends) (Chengdu: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 1992)Google Scholar with 13 intellectuals, capitalists and former KMT politicians; Hui, Yu and Hua, Zhong (eds.), Lingxiu jiaowang shilu xilie: Mao Zedong (The Encyclopedia of Leader's Contacts: Mao Zedong) (Chengdu: Sichuan renmin chubanshe, 1992)Google Scholar, with 75 Party leaders, united front contacts, intellectuals, family members and foreigners.

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33. Xue Jianhua, Mao Zedong and His Rightist Friends, pp. 274–298.

34. Nan Guang (ed.), Mao Zedong and His Four Major Secretaries. Sources for the book are four commemorative pieces on Mao's secretary Tian Jiaying written by close colleagues, Peng Dehuai's and Chen Boda's self-examination, two research pieces on Zhou Xiaozhou and Chen Boda, the Central Committee circulars on the Lin Biao affair as well as a volume by Li Rui on the 1959 Lushan conference. The latter was commissioned by the Party leadership in 1980 on the occasion of Peng Dehuai's rehabilitation. It has been published in an enlarged Hong Kong edition as: Rui, Li, Lushan huiyi shilu (Records of the Lushan Conference) (Hong Kong: Tiandi tushu, 1993).Google Scholar

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39. Jia Zhenqiu (ed.), Mao Zedong's Inspection Tours, pp. 199–208.

40. Ibid. pp. 174–180, 289–303; Xiao Xinli (ed.), Mao Zedong Inspecting Areas North and South of the Yangzi, pp. 371–381.

41. Xiao Xinli (ed.), Mao Zedong Inspecting Areas North and South of the Yangzi, pp. 402–419; Jia Zhenqiu (ed.), Mao Zedong's Inspection Tours, pp. 182–193.

42. Jia Zhenqiu (ed.), Mao Zedong's Inspection Tours, pp. 86–100.

43. Ibid. p. 56.

44. Ibid. p. 299.

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