Maurice Meisner - Mao Zedong's: A Political and Intellectual Portrait It is an easy read but interesting for someone who has no background.)Ĭhen Jian - Mao's China and the Cold War (This is about Mao era foreign policy, still heavily focused on Mao. Rebecca Karl - Mao Zedong's and China in the Twentieth-Century World (This is meant for an intro/undergrad course. Stuart Schram - The Political Thought of Mao Tse-tung (Old but still widely cited)įrederic Wakeman - History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-tung's Thought (Again on Mao's Marxism) Nick Knight - Rethinking Mao: Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought (This is about his views on Marxism) Maurice Meisner - Mao's China and After (Mostly political history) My recommendations are mostly sympathetic toward Mao without letting him off the hook for the disasters of his period. What you read depends on what you want to know about him. You can gather the main points from other mentions of it. The Chang/Halliday book is really derided in many histories of the Mao period.
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