Mao Zedong

Date

1893–1976

Description

City of birth: Shaoshanchong
Country of birth: China
Field of activity: Politics — socialism

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Quotes

‘We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness, and serve the Chinese people heart and soul.’

Author

Mao Zedong

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Title of the publication

China’s Two Possible Destinies, 23 April 1945

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Foreign Languages Press

City of publication

Beijing (Peking)

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

China

Publication date

1965

Location [pp. or web]

Selected Works, Vol III, p. 253

Other location

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/sw-in-pdf/sw-flp-1965-v3.pdf

Original language

Chinese

Genre

Book

Context

This volume is an English translation of the second Chinese edition of the third volume of the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, published by the People’s Publishing House, Peking, in April 1960.

‘Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his boundless sense of responsibility in his work and his boundless warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people. Every Communist must learn from him. We must all learn the spirit of absolute selflessness from him. With this spirit everyone can be very useful to the people. A man’s ability may be great or small, but if he has this spirit, he is already noble-minded and pure, a man of moral integrity and above vulgar interests, a man who is of value to the people.’

Author

Mao Zedong

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Title of the publication

‘In Memory of Norman Bethune, 21 December 1939'

Other contributors

n/a

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Foreign Languages Press

City of publication

Beijing (Peking)

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

China

Publication date

1965

Location [pp. or web]

Selected Works, Vol II, pp. 337–8

Other location

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/sw-in-pdf/sw-flp-1965-v2.pdf

Original language

Chinese

Genre

Book

Context

This volume is an English translation of the second Chinese edition of the second volume of the ‘Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung’, published by the People’s Publishing House, Peking in April 1960. Henry Norman Bethune (1890–1939) was a Canadian physician. Dr Bethune is widely acknowledged as the person who brought modern medicine to rural China. Mao Zedong wrote a eulogy to him.

‘There were two parties in the family. One was my father, the Ruling Power. The Opposition was made up of myself, my mother, my brother and sometimes even the labourer. In the ‘united front’ of the Opposition, however, there was a difference of opinion. My mother advocated a policy of indirect attack. She criticized any over display of emotion and attempts at open rebellion against the Ruling Power. She said it was not the Chinese way. … Reflecting on this, I think that in the end the strictness of my father defeated him. I learned to hate him, and we created a real united front again him.’

Author

Mao Zedong

Speaker

Mao Zedong

Title of the publication

Red Star over China

Other contributors

Edgar Snow, author; Wu Lianp-ping, translator

Publisher (or journal name with vol. and number)

Random House

City of publication

New York

Country of publication (modern nation-state equivalent)

United States of America

Publication date

1937

Location [pp. or web]

Ch. 1, ‘Childhood’

Other location

https://bit.ly/2xJ185U

Original language

English

Genre

Book

Context

Edgar Snow (1905–1972) was an American journalist known for writing books and articles on China and the first Western journalist to interview Mao Zedong. Red Star over China is his account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.