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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung was originally compiled by an office of the PLA Daily (People's Liberation Army Daily) as an inspirational political and military document. The initial publication covered 23 topics with 200 selected quotations by Mao, and was entitled 200 Quotations from Chairman Mao. It was first given to delegates of a ...
The phrase was originally used by Mao during an emergency meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on 7 August 1927, at the beginning of the Chinese Civil War. [1] Mao employed the phrase a second time on 6 November 1938, during his concluding speech at the 6th Plenary Session of the CCP's 6th Central Committee.
Mao states that guerrilla warfare is "a powerful special weapon with which we resist the Japanese and without which we cannot defeat them." Mao explains how guerrilla warfare can only succeed if employed by revolutionaries because it is a political and military style. According to Mao, guerrilla warfare is a way for the Chinese to expel an ...
The fourth volume of the Selected Works included a total of 70 articles by Mao Zedong after the Second Sino-Japanese War and before the founding of the People's Republic of China. [11] It was officially published and distributed by the People's Publishing House on September 30, 1960, priced at 14,000 yuan.
On Protracted War (simplified Chinese: 论持久战; traditional Chinese: 論持久戰; pinyin: Lùn chíjiǔ zhàn) is a work comprising a series of speeches by Mao Zedong given from May 26, 1938, to June 3, 1938, at the Yenan Association for the Study of the War of Resistance Against Japan. [1]
Mao states that prior to China engaging in communism, it had tried to learn from Western countries, as Japan. However the Western imperialism made that impossible because they were formerly aggressive states. That requires cognitive dissonance to even entertain the notion that democratic reform was desirable. The on-going aggression at the time ...
On Contradiction, along with Mao's text On Practice, elevated Mao's reputation as a Marxist theoretician. [ 12 ] : 37 It became a foundational text of Mao Zedong Thought . [ 4 ] : 9 After Mao was celebrated in the Eastern Bloc following China's intervention in the Korean War , both texts became widely read in the USSR.
In the speech, Mao quoted a phrase written by the famous Han dynasty historian Sima Qian: "Though death befalls all men alike, it may be heavy as Mount Tai or light as a feather". Mao continued: "To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and oppressors is lighter than a feather ...