Readings of Chairman Mao

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Readings

1 . REPORT ON AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PEASANT MOVEMENT IN HUNAN 

• Read through “Vanguards of the Revolution”

• Skim “Fourteen Great Achievements”

Questions

How did Mao arrive at his position with respect to the Peasant Movement? Why is this important?

What lessons can we take away from this piece?

2. Poems of Mao Zedong Marxists Internet Archive – Poems of Mao Zedong 

• Read Mao Zedong: Chinese, Communist, Poet 

• Select 3 poems from the following: Poems of Mao Zedong 

Questions

What value does poetry have to the revolution?

3.  Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung ('The Little Red Book') 

• Read Foreword, Chapter 2, and Chapter 4

Questions

What lessons can we take away from this piece? 

Do you agree it is important to study “basic  concepts  over  and  over  again,  and  it  is  best  to  memorize important statements and study and apply them repeatedly”? Why or why not?

Additional not required supplementary readings & resources

Reading Mao - Sendai Era

Chairman Mao

Bambu – Chairman Mao Lyrics