Mao Tse-Tung

The Utopia bookshop [in Beijing] is a refuge for China’s leftists, the term used to describe those nostalgic for Mao Zedong’s rule and worried that the country is abandoning its communist principles. --The Economist, The Little Red Bookshop, February 5, 2009


Recommended reading:
by Mao Tse-Tung at Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Mao and the art of management, The Economist, December 19, 2007

Mission to Mao by Roderick MacFarquhar, review of Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, The New York Review of Books, June 28, 2007

Review by David Luhrssen, of Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan, Shepherd-Express, April 12, 2007

Words to Die By by John Kekes, review of Virtue and Terror, by Maximilien Robespierre and On Practice and Contradiction, by Mao Zedong, City Journal, February 20, 2007 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

Mao Now by Ross Terrill, The Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2006 (via Arts & Letters Daily)

From Mao to Now: A Reevaluation, by Chas W. Freeman, The Globalist, December 15, 2006

The Bloody Enigma, review by Andrew J. Nathan of Mao's Last Revolution, by Roderick Macfarquhar, The New Republic, November 30, 2006 (via Arts & Letters Daily)