The morning deluge : Mao Tsetung and the Chinese Revolution, 1893-1954 / Han Suyin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, MA : Little, Brown and Company, c1972Description: xiv, 571 pages : black and white illustrations, black and white maps, black and white portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0316342890
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05/092/4 B
LOC classification:
  • DS 778 .M3 H35 1972
Online resources:
Contents:
Part I. 1. Childhood -- 2. Youth and school years -- 3. First trip to Peking -- 4. The First Cultural Revolution - May 4, 1919 -- 5. Dedication -- 6. The First United Front -- 7. The ways divide -- 8. The betrayal -- 9. The First Red Base - The First "Left" Line -- 10. Mao Tsetung and Li Li-san - The Second "Left" Line -- 11. Mao Tsetung and Wang Ming - The Third "Left" Line -- 12. The Long March --
Part II. 1. The Yenan Period - The Second United Front -- 2. Profile of Yenan -- 3. Mao Tsetung - The man and the teacher in Yenan -- 4. The Reunification Movement, (1941 - 1944) -- 5. The Seventh Congress, April 1945 -- 6. The conquest of power - prelude -- 7. The conquest of power - the Civil War and liberation, (1946 - 1949) -- 8. Mao Tsetung and Stalin -- 9. The Korean War.
Summary: "When Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visited the People's Republic of China in October 1971, he had this to say: 'Today no one refers to China without mentioning its great leader, Chairman Mao Tsetung. The life history of Chairman Mao is in essence the history of New China. Rare are instances when an individual makes such a profound impact on a nation's history'. It is essentially in this spirit that 'The Morning Deluge' has been written. It is not meant to be the biography of a single hero, a genius a Caesar in absolute authority, a superman above the crowd, manipulating people and events. It is to give, through episodes of Chairman Mao's life and especially through his development as a revolutionary and as a thinker, the story of the Chinese Revolution...The Chinese Revolution brought forth its leader in Mao Tsetung; Mao Tsetung shaped the Chinese Revolution. This dialectical link, symbiosis between a man's life and the Revolution to which he has given his life, makes it impossible to write of the one without the other. Mao Tsetung has embodied the aspirations, needs, and desires of his nation and of his people; their will to revolt, to end exploitation, misery, injustice; to free themselves and become masters of their own destiny. Not a single day has Mao Tsetung departed from this goal, and he has always gone back to the peasants and workers, the downtrodden of his land, to learn from them, with magnificent humility. The source of his creative power, as he will say himself, is the boundless creative power of the masses, who topple empires and transform the earth. He found his own people with limitless enthusiasm for revolution, and unhesitatingly gave all of himself to it, and hence became their leader, the nation-man." -- From prologue
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Includes index.

Includes extensive list of maps, illustrations (photographs). Maps include graphics of north, south and central China including Red Bases. Illustrations include a collection of personal photographs of Mao Tsetung and his family; assorted military formation/battle scene shots.

Part I. 1. Childhood -- 2. Youth and school years -- 3. First trip to Peking -- 4. The First Cultural Revolution - May 4, 1919 -- 5. Dedication -- 6. The First United Front -- 7. The ways divide -- 8. The betrayal -- 9. The First Red Base - The First "Left" Line -- 10. Mao Tsetung and Li Li-san - The Second "Left" Line -- 11. Mao Tsetung and Wang Ming - The Third "Left" Line -- 12. The Long March --

Part II. 1. The Yenan Period - The Second United Front -- 2. Profile of Yenan -- 3. Mao Tsetung - The man and the teacher in Yenan -- 4. The Reunification Movement, (1941 - 1944) -- 5. The Seventh Congress, April 1945 -- 6. The conquest of power - prelude -- 7. The conquest of power - the Civil War and liberation, (1946 - 1949) -- 8. Mao Tsetung and Stalin -- 9. The Korean War.

"When Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visited the People's Republic of China in October 1971, he had this to say: 'Today no one refers to China without mentioning its great leader, Chairman Mao Tsetung. The life history of Chairman Mao is in essence the history of New China. Rare are instances when an individual makes such a profound impact on a nation's history'. It is essentially in this spirit that 'The Morning Deluge' has been written. It is not meant to be the biography of a single hero, a genius a Caesar in absolute authority, a superman above the crowd, manipulating people and events. It is to give, through episodes of Chairman Mao's life and especially through his development as a revolutionary and as a thinker, the story of the Chinese Revolution...The Chinese Revolution brought forth its leader in Mao Tsetung; Mao Tsetung shaped the Chinese Revolution. This dialectical link, symbiosis between a man's life and the Revolution to which he has given his life, makes it impossible to write of the one without the other. Mao Tsetung has embodied the aspirations, needs, and desires of his nation and of his people; their will to revolt, to end exploitation, misery, injustice; to free themselves and become masters of their own destiny. Not a single day has Mao Tsetung departed from this goal, and he has always gone back to the peasants and workers, the downtrodden of his land, to learn from them, with magnificent humility. The source of his creative power, as he will say himself, is the boundless creative power of the masses, who topple empires and transform the earth. He found his own people with limitless enthusiasm for revolution, and unhesitatingly gave all of himself to it, and hence became their leader, the nation-man." -- From prologue

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