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Volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao's career in the period, 1958-1976. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.
List of contents
Introduction to the English Edition: Volume III Hans van de Ven; Further Reading on Mao Zedong; 1. Efforts to Rectify 'Left' Deviation (I); 2. Efforts to Rectify 'Left' Deviation (II); 3. The Lushan Conference; 4. The Sixteen Months after the Lushan Conference (I); 5. The Sixteen Months after the Lushan Conference (II); 6. Major Revival of Investigations and Study (I); 7. Major Revival of Investigations and Study (II); 8. From the 7,000-Cadres Meeting to the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee (I); 9. From the 7,000-Cadres Meeting to the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee (II); 10. Sino-Soviet Polemics; 11. The Socialist Education Movement (I); 12. The Socialist Education Movement (II); 13. Launching the Cultural Revolution; 14. Supporting the Red Guard Movement; 15. The Days of 'Comprehensive Power Seizure'; 16. From the Twelfth Plenary Session of the Eighth CPC Central Committee to the Ninth CPC National Congress; 17. The Lin Biao Incident; 18. Domestic Affairs and Foreign Relations in 1972; 19. The Tenth Party Congress; 20. Criticizing the Gang of Four; 21. From Supporting Comprehensive Rectification to 'Opposing Right Deviationist Attempts to Reverse Verdicts'; 22. Mao's Final Days; Afterword I; Afterword II; Afterword to the Second Edition.
Summary
Volume 3 of the official Chinese Communist Party biography of Mao Zedong. This volume covers Mao's career in the period, 1958–1976. This is a unique source through which to view the ways in which the transformative events of the twentieth century have been understood and portrayed in contemporary China.
