Mao Zedong Thought

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-35890-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 210, 326 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Wang Fanxi, a leader of the Chinese Trotskyists, wrote this book on Mao more than fifty years ago. He did so while in exile in the then Portuguese colony of Macau, across the water from Hong Kong, where he had been sent in 1949 to represent his comrades in China, soon to disappear for decades into Mao’s jails. The book is an analytical study whose strength lies less in describing Mao’s life than in explaining Maoism and setting out a radical view on it as a political movement and a current of thought within the Marxist tradition to which both Wang and Mao belonged. With its clear and provoking thesis, it has, since its writing, stood the test of time far better than the hundreds of descriptive studies that have in the meantime come and gone.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fanxi, Wang

Benton, Gregor

Weitere Mitwirkende

Benton, Gregor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the Translation

Abbreviated Source Designations

Introduction

Gregor Benton

Mao Zedong Thought

Preface

Foreword

1 On the Personality Cult

2 The Sources and Components of Mao Zedong Thought

3 Mao Zedong Thought and ‘Mao Zedong Thought’

4 A Brilliant Tactician

5 A Middling Strategist (Part 1)

New Democracy and Permanent Revolution

6 A Middling Strategist (Part 2)

Armed Revolution and Revolutionary Strategy

7 Theory and Practice

8 Art and Literature: Policy and Creativity

9 Self-Reliance and ‘Communism in One Country’

10 Mao’s Position in History: On Outstanding Personages

Appendix 1: Seven Theses on Socialism and Democracy (1957)

Appendix 2: Thinking in Solitude (1957)

Appendix 3: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1967)

Appendix 4: The ‘Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius’ Movement (1974)

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wang Fanxi (1907 – 2002) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary. Born in 1907, he was imprisoned during the 1930s, and for the last decades of his life lived in Leeds in the United Kingdom.

Gregor Benton is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University. His books include Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 1934–1938 (University of California Press, 1992), honoured by the University of California Press as ‘a special book in Asian studies’ and by the Association of Asian Studies as the Best Book on Modern China. His most recent book is Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 (University of California Press, 2018; co-authored with Hong Liu).