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Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao : From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward by Eugene Wu (1989, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-10067479673X

ISBN-139780674796737

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038825068

Product Key Features

Book TitleSecret Speeches of Chairman Mao : from the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSpeeches, Ethnic Studies / General, General

Publication Year1989

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, Literary Collections

AuthorEugene Wu

Book SeriesHarvard Contemporary China Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight28.9 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN89-000497

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition19

Series Volume Number6

Dewey Decimal951.05/092/4

SynopsisIn 1957 and 1958, Chairman Mao Zedong led China into two major experiments: the Hundred Flowers policy of encouraging literary and political free expression and the economic Great Leap Forward. Each was a disaster. Repression followed the first when it became clear that intellectuals would criticize the Communist Party itself; famine followed the second. During two crucial years when the movements were being initiated, however, Mao addressed various Party groups behind closed doors to explain the new policies and exhort compliance. Recorded at the time and collected for limited circulation in the 1960s by his admirers among the Red Guards, the speeches, question-and-answer sessions, and letters here translated have never before been published in China or the West. These new, candid materials revise our understanding of how the policies developed and reveal not only the extent of Mao's power but the startling flights his untethered thought could take. Introductory essays by Roderick MacFarquhar, Benjamin Schwartz, Eugene Wu, Merle Goldman, and Timothy Cheek provide a context for evaluating and interpreting the nineteen texts translated in this volume., During two crucial years of the Cultural Revolution, Mao addressed various Party groups behind closed doors to explain the new policies and exhort compliance. These new, candid materials revise our understanding of how the policies developed and reveal not only the extent of Mao's power but the startling flights his untethered thought could take.

LC Classification NumberDS778.M3A5 1989