MAO

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

Note on Spelling and Pronunciation

Chinese Views of Mao: Preface to the New Revised Edition

1. A Confucian Childhood

3. Lords of Misrule

4. A Ferment of ‘Isms’

5. The Comintern Takes Charge

6. Events Leading to the Horse Day Incident and its Bloody Aftermath

7. Out of the Barrel of a Gun

8. Futian: Loss of Innocence

9. Chairman of the Republic

10. In Search of the Grey Dragon: The Long March North

11. Yan'an Interlude: The Philosopher is King

12. Paper Tigers

13. The Sorcerer's Apprentice

14. Musings on Immortality

16. Things Fall Apart

Dramatis Personae