Lexington Books
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978-0-7391-1706-4 • Hardback • April 2007 • $155.00 • (£119.00)
978-0-7391-1707-1 • Paperback • April 2007 • $59.99 • (£46.00)
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Nick Knight is professor of Asian studies at Griffith University in Australia.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking Mao
Chapter 2 On Questions of Method I - Rethinking Mao and the Mao Texts
Chapter 3 On Questions of Method II - The Marxism of Mao Zedong
Chapter 4 Working Class and Peasantry in Mao Zedong's Thought, 1923-1945
Chapter 5 Politics and Vision: Historical Time and the Future in Mao Zedong's Thought: A Study of Three Documents, 1937-1940
Chapter 6 Perspectives on Marxism and Social Change in Mao Zedong's Thought: A Study of Three Documents, 1937-1940
Chapter 7 Mao Zedong and the Sinification of Marxism
Chapter 8 Mao Zedong on the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1949-1969
Chapter 9 From Harmony to Struggle, From Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong's Thought
Distinguished China scholar Nick Knight has been researching Mao Zedong's thought for nearly four decades. Departing from recent conventional research, which tends to demonize and/or scoff at Mao, Knight takes Mao very seriously, both as a socialist leader and as a Marxist. In this important and aptly titled book, Knight reaches many innovative, balanced, and perceptive conclusions that will surely impact greatly on the future study of a man who, whatever his failings, was undoubtedly among the towering figures of the twentieth century...
— Colin Mackerras
Rethinking Mao not only offers something new, it does so with a critical depth that others eschew.... Rethinking Mao not only offers a sophisticated analysis of Mao's historicism, it is itself an excellent example of historicist scholarship....
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Nick Knight has distinguished himself over the years as one of the most astute readers and interpreters of Mao's thought. Rethinking Mao brings together a lifetime of scholarship, revisited and revised with the benefit of contemporary hindsight. Thevolume is a serious reminder of the historical and theoretical significance of Mao's thought at a time when most writing on Mao, riding the wave of anti-socialism, has degenerated into little more than malicious gossip. It also coincides with a reevaluation of Mao's policies in the PRC as possible inspiration in confronting the problems created by three decades of reform that turned its back on his revolutionary legacy...
— Arif Dirlik, author of Marxism in the Chinese Revolution