Back to Modern History SourceBook Modern History Sourcebook: Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927 Mao was a a Hunanese peasant and became one of the founding members of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. Other founders had tended to be more exposed to western ideas, and hence, as Marxists, to value the industrial working class. The ...

Reference Writers: Mao Zedong Documents Biography Works: 1926: Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society 1927: Report of an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan 1928: Why is it that Red Political Power Can Exist in China 1929: On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party 1930: New Year's Day 1930: A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire 1933: Pay Attention to Economic Work 1933: How to ...

Nixon's China Game, details the diplomatic breakthrough in 1972 that broke two decades of silence between the United States and China.

Mao's Little Red Book online. Quotations of Chairman Mao. Hyperlinked to definitions of Chinese characters and to English translation.

Chiang Kai-shek. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 ...

The life of the last emperor of China, Henry P'u Yi or Puyi; books about the last emperor.

JUNE 9 SPEECH TO MARTIAL LAW UNITS Deng Xiaoping Source: Beijing Domestic Television Service, June 27, 1989; FBIS, June 27, pp. 8-10. level on June 9 -- read by announcer; from the News program.] Comrades, you have been working very hard. First, I express my profound condolences to the commanders and fighters of the People's Liberation Army , commanders and fighters of the armed police force, ...

The contest for leadership of China after Sun Yat-sen's death had several contenders but one clear favorite: Chiang Kai-shek.

People & Events Chou En-Lai (1898 - 1976) Kissinger considered Chou En-lai one of the two or three most impressive men I have ever met. Nixon wrote of his brilliance and dynamism. Premier Chou En-lai was Communist China's first and longest-serving leader. As the Communist representative in Chungking, the Chinese capital during World War II, he became familiar with many American officials and ...