Chairman Mao's Children

Chairman Mao's Children
Title Chairman Mao's Children PDF eBook
Author Bin Xu
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 287
Release 2021-06-17
Genre History
ISBN 1108844251

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In the 1960s and 1970s, around 17 million Chinese youths were mobilized or forced by the state to migrate to rural villages and China's frontiers. Bin Xu tells the story of how this 'sent-down' generation have come to terms with their difficult past. Exploring representations of memory including personal life stories, literature, museum exhibits, and acts of commemoration, he argues that these representations are defined by a struggle to reconcile worthiness with the political upheavals of the Mao years. These memories, however, are used by the state to construct an official narrative that weaves this generation's experiences into an upbeat story of the 'China dream'. This marginalizes those still suffering and obscures voices of self-reflection on their moral-political responsibility for their actions. Xu provides careful analysis of this generation of 'Chairman Mao's children', caught between the political and the personal, past and present, nostalgia and regret, and pride and trauma.

The Private Life of Chairman Mao

The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Title The Private Life of Chairman Mao PDF eBook
Author Li Zhi-Sui
Publisher Random House
Pages 734
Release 2011-06-22
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307791394

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“The most revealing book ever published on Mao, perhaps on any dictator in history.”—Professor Andrew J. Nathan, Columbia University From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in daily—and increasingly intimate—contact with Mao and his inner circle. in The Private Life of Chairman Mao, Dr. Li vividly reconstructs his extraordinary experience at the center of Mao's decadent imperial court. Dr. Li clarifies numerous long-standing puzzles, such as the true nature of Mao's feelings toward the United States and the Soviet Union. He describes Mao's deliberate rudeness toward Khrushchev and reveals the actual catalyst of Nixon's historic visit. Here are also surprising details of Mao's personal depravity (we see him dependent on barbiturates and refusing to wash, dress, or brush his teeth) and the sexual politics of his court. To millions of Chinese, Mao was more god than man, but for Dr. Li, he was all too human. Dr. Li's intimate account of this lecherous, paranoid tyrant, callously indifferent to the suffering of his people, will forever alter our view of Chairman Mao and of China under his rule. Praise for The Private Life of Chairman Mao “From now one no one will be able to pretend to understand Chairman Mao's place in history without reference to this revealing account.”—Professor Lucian Pye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Dr. Li does for Mao what the physician Lord Moran's memoir did for Winston Churchill—turns him into a human being. Here is Mao unveiled: eccentric, demanding, suspicious, unregretful, lascivious, and unfailingly fascinating. Our view of Mao will never be the same again.”—Ross Terrill, author of China in Our Time “An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Mao. [Dr. Li] portrays [Mao's imperial court] as a place of boundless decadence, licentiousness, selfishness, relentless toadying and cutthroat political intrigue.”—Richard Bernstein, The New York Times “One of the most provocative books on Mao to appear since the publication of Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China.”—Paul G. Pickowicz, The Wall Street Journal

Mao and Me

Mao and Me
Title Mao and Me PDF eBook
Author Jiang Hong Chen
Publisher
Pages 77
Release 2008
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 9781592700790

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Chens picture book memoir of growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China.

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
Title Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung PDF eBook
Author Mao Tse-Tung
Publisher Read Books Ltd
Pages 192
Release 2013-04-16
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1446545318

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung.

Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong

Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong
Title Children's Literature in China: From Lu Xun to Mao Zedong PDF eBook
Author Mary Ann Farquhar
Publisher Routledge
Pages 353
Release 2015-04-22
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1317475070

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This book introduces the major works and debates in Chinese children's literature within the framework of China's revolution and modernization. It demonstrates that the guiding rationale in children's literature was the political importance of children as the nation's future.

Little Green

Little Green
Title Little Green PDF eBook
Author Chun Yu
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 128
Release 2015-04-07
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 1442460318

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In China in 1966, Chun Yu was born as the Great Cultural Revolution began under Chairman Mao. Here, she recalls her childhood as a witness to a country in turmoil and struggle--the only life she knew.

Mao's Lost Children

Mao's Lost Children
Title Mao's Lost Children PDF eBook
Author Ou Nianzhong
Publisher Merwinasia
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9781937385675

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A collection of memoirs from more than fifty zhiqings or young Chinese who suffered under the reign of Mao Zedong during the 1960s and 1970s.