Mao's Road to Power

By 1939 Mao Zedong was a leader in the Chinese Communist Party through his political acumen, his organizing energy, and his executive ability. At the same time, his abilities to shift register, to maintain a sense of the whole and also of the particular, and to absorb seemingly contradictory realities in the social, political and military arenas he <p>General Introduction: Mao Zedong and the Chinese Revolution 1912-1949, Introduction, Note on Sources and Conventions, Part I. Texts, 1939-1941</p>