Xina

For Western Marxists, what is likely to be most astonishing is the many-sided approach to Marxism displayed throughout this work. This reflects a strong emphasis on cultivating an open Marxism, drawing on different views and debates, and various movement vernaculars, in the continuing world struggle for socialism.

Book by Wheelwright, E. L., McFarlane, Bruce

More than thirty years after its initial publication, William Hinton's Fanshen continues to be the essential source for those fascinated with China's continual process of rural reform and social change. This edition will appeal to anyone interested in understanding China's complex social processes, and to those who wish to rediscover and re-experience this classic volume again.

The purpose of this concise treatment was never to give a full account of China's great change - crucial for herself and - since she is a fifth of manking - for the world. The aim was to speak to western-educated people (not just those of western origin but many on all continents schooled under colonial influence) - to help them to "shift gears" from what they had been taught as history to things they had not been taught or led to dismiss as marginal.

Una porta d'entrada a la convulsa història contemporània de la Xina, tant pel que fa en l'àmbit intern com en el de les relacions internacionals L’entrada a la modernitat ha sigut un procés traumàtic per a totes les societats humanes. Per a la Xina, va significar el daltabaix d’un món que s’havia construït al seu voltant. El desig de superar el trauma que va suposar la pèrdua del món xinès, així com la voluntat de refer l’autopercepció de fortalesa del seu país, són el que ha guiat el pensament i l’acció de les elits xineses des de finals del segle XIX fins als nostres dies, en l’agitat procés de construcció d’una versió pròpia de la modernitat. Després de l’obertura dels anys vuitanta i l’explosiu creixement econòmic experimentat per la Xina, avui podem dir que el país ha sigut capaç de construir amb èxit la seva versió de la modernitat capitalista. A mesura que el procés de modernització ha entrat en un estadi de maduresa, però, la modernitat xinesa, en comptes d’allunyar-se d’Occident, comença a trobar-se amb els mateixos problemes i tensions socials que la resta de societats desenvolupades del món. La fi de l’alternativa xinesa ofereix al lector claus per entendre la convulsa història contemporània de la Xina, tant en els seus propis termes com en relació amb un marc global d’expansió de les societats modernes.

This short anthology comprises Mao’s key essays on organization and mass line, including “On Correcting Mistaken Ideas in the Party,” “Combat Liberalism,” and “Rectify the Party's Style of Work,” which offer ideological and theoretical insight and analysis into the complexities of organizational structures and practices. This collection addresses critical issues such as combating bourgeois ideas, opposing bureaucracy, and adhering to the discipline of mass line.

Conhecido sobretudo como homem de ação, Mao Tsé-tung foi também o filósofo que discutia as tendências do pensamento revolucionário na China sob o calor dos acontecimentos. Alguns dos escritos de Mao - como "Sobre a prática" e "Sobre a contradição" - são de leitura obrigatória para todos os que desejam compreender a filosofia política de um dos mais importantes revolucionários do século XX.

One of the most influential documents of our time, Mao Tse-tung's pamphlet on guerrilla warfare has become the basic textbook for waging revolution in underdeveloped and emergent areas throughout the world. Recognizing the fundamental disparity between agrarian and urban societies, Mao advocated unorthodox strategies that converted deficits into using intelligence provided by the sympathetic peasant population; substituting deception, mobility, and surprise for superior firepower; using retreat as an offensive move; and educating the inhabitants on the ideological basis of the struggle. This radical new approach to warfare, waged in jungles and mountains by mobile guerrilla bands closely supported by local inhabitants, has been adopted by other revolutionary leaders from Ho Chi Minh to Che Guevara. Mao wrote On Guerrilla Warfare in 1937 while in retreat after ten years of battling the Nationalist army of Chiang Kai-shek. Twelve years later, the Nationalist Chinese were rousted from the mainland, and Mao consolidated his control of a new nation, having put his theories of revolutionary guerrilla warfare to the test. Established governments have slowly come to recognize the need to understand and devise means to counter this new method of warfare. Samuel B. Griffith's classic translation makes Mao's treatise widely available and includes a comprehensive introduction that profiles Mao, analyzes the nature and conduct of guerrilla warfare, and considers its implications for American policy.

Book by Tse-Tung, Mao

An outstanding critical analysis of Mao Zedong’s political thought. There have been many books on Mao Zedong, but few match this indispensable study by Wang Fanxi, a leading Chinese Trotskyist and contemporary of Mao. Written more than fifty years ago during Wang Fanxi's exile in Macau, this outstanding analysis has stood the test of time as a critical appraisal of Maoism as a political current from within the Marxist tradition. Wang Fanxi himself was forced to live out his life in exile. His book remains indispensable to anyone interested in a serious appraisal of Mao Zedong.