Mao Zedong A Bibliography

Subjects:

• History » Asian History

Reviews:

• This bibliography on Mao contains a chronology, a list of his wives and children, a 19-page biographical sketch, a guide to source materials, and 1,030 annotated entries. These entries list English articles and books covering Mao's published works and secondary material: biographies, analyses of his political thought and military strategies, and literary criticism. Its coverage is very extensive but by no means comprehensive. The annotations are sometimes critical and generally accurate, although there are occasional defects, e.g., a typographical error (#991), a missing date of publication (#1027), and outdated information (#992). The use of the Pinyin system for transcribing Chinese characters throughout the volume is a good choice, even though the compiler's statement that Pinyin "is now replacing Wade-Giles in the cataloging system of Western libraries" (p. vii) is not true. Although some libraries in Europe have adopted Pinyin, Wade-Giles is still the system used in US libraries. In light of the lack of any other current bibliographical guide to Mao, who was the subject of many works published in the 1960s and early 1970s, this new bibliography should be a welcome addition to the reference shelf of college and university collections.
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Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Some Thoughts of Mao Zedong
• Transcription: Wade-Giles to Pinyin; Pinyin to Wade-Giles
• Chronology
• Mao Zedong's Wives and Children, 1893-1976
• The Life of Mao Zedong
• The Sources
• Published Works of Mao Zedong
• General Biographies and Other Works
• Early Life to 1921
• 1921 to 1935
• 1935 to 1949
• 1949 to 1959
• 1960 to 1969
• 1970 to 1976
• Analyses of the Thought of Mao Zedong
• Mao's Military Strategy
• Mao the Poet
• Historiography
• IndexES