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Mao Tse-Tung In Opposition, 1927-1935
Binding loose. Cover scuffed and worn. Pencil markings in text. No dust jacket.Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a reading copy.
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387 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 1966
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June 30, 2020
I was asked about this rating so I figured I may as well make my response public.
"One of the big things I remember was a claim that after the CCP central committee moved to the Jiangxi Soviet they removed Mao from power and put him under house arrest until shortly before the Long March. This contradicts every other source I've seen, in which he was removed from decision-making power, but put into a bureaucratic post - still totally free. This was probably an honest mistake, there weren't a lot of good sources available to an American scholar in the '60s, but for that reason it made me much more skeptical of some other claims. 3 stars isn't a "bad" rating from me, for its time I think it was a good history and it's still a decent overview as long as you go in remembering that it's been 60 years and we know a lot more now. And if you're interested in the historiography of the Chinese Revolution, it's a great example of '60s scholarship on it.
In its place I'd recommend "Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership" by Thomas Kampen, which does a great job dispelling a lot of the myths that were considered common knowledge when Rue was writing."
"One of the big things I remember was a claim that after the CCP central committee moved to the Jiangxi Soviet they removed Mao from power and put him under house arrest until shortly before the Long March. This contradicts every other source I've seen, in which he was removed from decision-making power, but put into a bureaucratic post - still totally free. This was probably an honest mistake, there weren't a lot of good sources available to an American scholar in the '60s, but for that reason it made me much more skeptical of some other claims. 3 stars isn't a "bad" rating from me, for its time I think it was a good history and it's still a decent overview as long as you go in remembering that it's been 60 years and we know a lot more now. And if you're interested in the historiography of the Chinese Revolution, it's a great example of '60s scholarship on it.
In its place I'd recommend "Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and the Evolution of the Chinese Communist Leadership" by Thomas Kampen, which does a great job dispelling a lot of the myths that were considered common knowledge when Rue was writing."
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