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MEMORY AND MEANING: HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE AND CONTESTED LEGACIES
Mao Studies and Images of Mao Internationally
Multiple Maos in China Today
APPROACHING MAO: HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT MAO?
1 Making Revolution in Twentieth-Century China
THE LATE QING NEW POLICY REFORMS
THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT
THE 1911 REVOLUTION AND WARLORDISM
STUDENTS AND INTELLECTUALS
THE NATIONAL REVOLUTION OF THE 1920S AND THE RISE OF LENINIST POLITICS
REVOLUTION IN THE HINTERLANDS
NATIONAL RESISTANCE AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
3 From Urban Radical to Rural Revolutionary: Mao From the 1920s to 1937
MAO AND THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY, 1921–27
SURVIVAL AND THE EMERGENCE OF RURAL REVOLUTION, 1927–34
PARTY LEADERSHIP AND THE FORMULATION OF “MAOISM”
4 War, Cosmopolitanism, and Authority: Mao from 1937 to 1956
COMMUNIST GLOBALIZATION IN THE INTERWAR YEARS
THE RECTIFICATION MOVEMENT
THE DEMISE OF COMMUNIST GLOBALIZATION IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE PRC
5 Consuming Fragments of Mao Zedong: The Chairman’s Final Two Decades at the Helm
WHERE DO CORRECT IDEAS COME FROM?
PURGING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM: THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
A REVOLUTION IS NOT A DINNER PARTY
THE SAVIOR EMERGES: MAO AND THE PARTY, 1941–49
THE EMPEROR PRESIDES: EARLY SUCCESSES, 1949–56
“THE FIRST EMPEROR OF ANY DYNASTY WAS ALWAYS SEVERE AND BRILLIANT,” 1957–65
“TO REBEL IS JUSTIFIED [EXCEPT AGAINST MAO],” 1966–71
FRAIL IN BODY, SHIFTING ATTITUDES, ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY, 1972–76
EXPLAINING THE LOYALTY OF MAO’S FOLLOWERS
7 Mao, Mao Zedong Thought, and Communist Intellectuals
THE IDEOLOGICAL MILIEU: ANTIELITIST ELITISM
Imperfect Leaders Leading the Imperfect Masses
Insufficient Political Commitment
MAO ZEDONG I: ANTIELITIST ELITISM AND THE PEASANTRY
Contending for National Leadership
MAO ZEDONG II: ANTIELITIST ELITISM AND LITERATURE AND THE ARTS
The Importance of Popularization
MAO ZEDONG THOUGHT III: ANTIELITIST ELITISM AND POLITICAL COMMITMENT
8 Gendered Mao: Mao, Maoism, and Women
WOMEN IN MAO’S THOUGHT AND WRITING
MAO’S RELATIONSHIPS WITH WOMEN
Before the People’s Republic
In the PRC: Before the Cultural Revolution
9 Mao the Man and Mao the Icon
“SAVIOR OF THE CHINESE PEOPLE”: THE CREATION OF A COMMON MYTH
FROM CCP CHAIRMAN TO “REDDEST RED SUN”
10 For Truly Great Men, Look to This Age Alone: Was Mao Zedong a New Emperor?
THE AIR OF A KING, THE WILES OF A MONKEY
11 Recent Mao Zedong Scholarship in China
THE SUBTLE CHANGES IN OFFICIAL IDEOLOGY
THE CRITICISMS OF THE LIBERAL SCHOOL
THE ARGUMENTS OF THE NEW LEFT SCHOLARS
THE NARRATIVES OF THE HISTORICAL SCHOOL
THIRD WORLD TO THREE WORLDS
Maoism and the Emergence of the Third World
China’s Path Is Our Path: The Case of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
China’s Realignment and Mao’s Theory of the Three Worlds
THREE MAOIST WORLDS: CAMBODIA, PERU, NEPAL
Exceeding Mao: The Communist Party of Kampuchea (“Khmer Rouge”)
Acclimatization: The Communist Party of Peru (Shining Path)
Globalization: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
13 Mao’s Journeys to the West: Meanings Made of Mao
1789–1920: THE STAGE IS SET, THE COLD WAR BEGINS
RED BOSS, BLUE ANTS, AND THE YELLOW PERIL, 1949–66
CULTURAL REVOLUTIONARY, DIPLOMATIC PARTNER
LEGACIES: MAO THE MONSTER AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF CHARISMA
14 Two Perspectives on Mao Zedong
Perspective 1: On Mao Zedong
Perspective 2: Mao Zedong Lun
Appendix Selected Further Readings (Annotated)
A Critical Introduction to Mao
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