Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Translator's Introduction Chapter 2 General Introduction: Mao and China Chapter 3 The Early Years (1893-1919) Chapter 4 Building a Party and Guiding a Revolution (1919-1930) Chapter 5 The Chinese Soviet Republic, The Long March, and the Yanan Years (1931-1949) Chapter 6 Mao and the People's Republic of China (1949-1976)

About the Author

Chunhou Zhang teaches in the Social Sciences Department of Shaanxi Foreign Language Teachers College in Xian. He has translated and published more than twenty articles on philosophical and social issues in China. C. Edwin Vaughan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the author of four books including Sociology: The Study of Society (2001).