Overview of the Book:
This book is a very informatieve one and is very reader friendly. In this book the ideas of Mao related to Marxism are discussed but also the different stages of his thought pattern and ideas are also discussed related to politics, conflicts, economics, strategy and so on. It starts from the first stages of May Fourth Movement to the Cultural Revolution in which the mind of Mao is so beautifully described. Schram describes factually and details that most can …show more content…
From the book we can judge from the drastic change in the policies that Mao was struggling within hmslef to find the best fit for the society.
The book does not directly explain or quote any law, policies or constitutions unless directly relavent to Mao’s ideas and shift in ideas. Many writer write of this man in a hateful mannerism or criticize him a lot, those who are in support of him do so with full heart but the writer here seems to be just somewhat disappointed in him.
The book has mostly parts including in which the book is written in the own words of Mao which makes it worth reading, it also gives information regarding many sensitive concepts and what the stand of Mao is on such matters like USSR, Vietnam and Civil War.
Audience to this book:
I think that this book is not for anyone who has just heard of the name Mao Yse-tung and has no idea or even a slight idea of his work and ideology. This book is for a person who is well read in the matter and wants to know more about the whole viewpoints. While the book supports the basic ideas it also presents some new ideas that the mind never thought of. The writer with evidence gives a view point that coucld change the usual standing of the reader and give it a new …show more content…
Evaluation:
The broadest and probably the most eternal face of Mao Tse-Tung's contribution to the Chinese revolution was only his thought. Stuart Schram's book observes the unfolding of Mao's ideas, and in doing so sheds new light on other facets of Mao Tse-Tung's life and periods. This assortment by Stuart Schram involves of some of the most essential abstracts from Mao Zedong’s works as well as some articles that are entirely vague from the well-known Selected Works but signify Mao’s behavior and practices.
In a stretch when the “shadow” of Mao’s power was troupe over all of Asia and his conceptual impact could be sensed all the world, the boldest and most challenging claim made by Schram is perhaps that Mao’s believed was already outdated.
Schram is seemingly persuaded by the fact that the egalitarian and desire characteristic in the Cultural Revolution, a denial of the universal and unstoppable drifts toward the bureaucratization in the course of industrial development and transformation, doomed Mao’s beliefs rotating into an ideology ill adapted to the difficulties of building a fresh