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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ( simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù) is a book of statements from speeches and writings by Mao Zedong (formerly romanized as Mao Tse-tung), the former Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, published from 1964 to 1979 and widely ...
Red August. On August 18, 1966, Mao Zedong met with student Red Guards on Tiananmen, triggering a wave of mass killings in Beijing. Red August ( simplified Chinese: 红八月; traditional Chinese: 紅八月; pinyin: Hóng Bāyuè) is a term used to indicate a period of political violence and massacres in Beijing beginning in August 1966, during ...
The Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung [note 1] ( simplified Chinese: 毛泽东选集; traditional Chinese: 毛澤東選集; pinyin: Máozédōng Xuǎnjí ), is a five volume collection of the written works of Mao Zedong ranging from the years 1926–1957. The collection was first published by the People's Publishing House in 1951, and was later ...
Chairman Mao Zedong and others at the Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art including Chen Xuezhao (5th from the left in the third row). The Yan'an Forum on Literature and Art (simplified Chinese: 延安文艺座谈会; traditional Chinese: 延安文藝座談會; pinyin: Yán'ān Wén Yì Zuòtánhuì) was a May 1942 forum held in the Yan'an Soviet and a significant event in the Yan'an ...
[The Red Book: Liber Novus, pp. 346–54] The gnostic author of a commentary on the Sermons, Stephan A. Hoeller, subsequently asked the editor of The Red Book, Sonu Shamdasani, to comment on the relationship between the two books, to which he replied that the Seven Sermons was like an island, whereas the Red Book was like a vast continent ...
Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) that was written by the husband-and-wife team of the writer Jung Chang and the historian Jon Halliday, who detail Mao's early life, his introduction to the Chinese Communist Party, and his political career. The book summarizes Mao's transition ...
Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of ...
A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Read, a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in ...