Chinese Political Thought Mao Tse-Tung and Liu Shao-Chi
As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, I am necessarily concerned about the future role of Communist China in world affairs. A true understanding of Peking's foreign policy motives and objectives is possible on
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YUNG PING CHEN Easlmi Illinois University Charleston
CHINESE POLITICAL THOUGHT Mao Tse-Tung and Liu Shao -chi SECOND REVISED EDITION
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. 1971
© 1971 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands in 1971 All rights reserved, including the right to translau or to reproduce this book or parts thererif in any form
ISBN 978-90-481-8315-9 ISBN 978-94-017-1031-2 (eBook) DOI 10.10071978-94-017-1031-2
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page Foreword by Vernon W. Thomson.
VII
1
Chapter I.
Biographical sketch.
Chapter II.
Philosophical viewpoint .
11
Chapter III.
Chinese conditions .
24
Chapter IV.
Democratic revolution
42
ChapterV.
Socialist revolution .
Chapter VI.
State and government.
68
Chapter VII.
The Communist party
78
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Chapter VIII. Nationalism and internationalism. Chapter IX.
Sino-Soviet ideological conflict .
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57
93 100
Conclusions .
109
Bibliography
122
.
127
Index.
FOREWORD
As a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs, I am necessarily concerned about the future role of Communist China in world affairs. A true understanding of Peking's foreign policy motives and objectives is possible only if one has a grasp of the ideological foundations and conflicts of the contemporary leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Therein lies the value of Professor Yung Ping Chen's revised edition Chinese Political Thought: Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi. Within a compact number of pages, Professor Chen's book provides the rt~ader with a clear and ready grasp of the fundamentals of Communist Chinese ideology. Although its scholarship is evident, the work's interpretation do not overwhelm the reader with lengthy quotations or confuse him with excessive speculations-difficulties sometimes associated with books about China. Instead, Professor Chen appears to have the ability to reduce complicated ideas to manageable proportions. In his revised edition, the author makes use of source material which recently has become available outside China to clarify issues involved in the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution." That phenomenon, which has caused so much wonder and speculation in the West, is analyzed by Professor Chen. He describes for the reader the underlying ideological factors which have emerged from the great turmoil in China, placing them within a framework of verified historical events while avoiding the pitfall of endless theorizing about situations and events inside China about which too little is yet known. Moreover, as a student of the thought of Liu Shao-chi, Professor Chen has avoided the common error of over-reliance on pro-Mao publications in reporting remarks allegedly made by Liu. Professor Chen also provides revealing insights into the mind of Mao, whose actions triggered the Cultural Revolution. By defining the purpose of Mao's ideological war against both his domestic and foreign opponents, he has succeeded in putting Maoist China's
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