Brown, Jeremy K. Ursula K. Le Guin. Chelsea House, 2011.
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Mao Zedong
Standard Name: Mao Zedong
Used Form: Mao Tse-Tung
Used Form: Tse-Tung, Mao
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ursula K. Le Guin | The idea for this book came from Mao Zedong
's extinguishing of Taoism
in the Cultural Revolution in China. |
| Occupation | William Empson | He found himself teaching in primitive and personally dangerous conditions in distant universities, at least one a temporary, ad hoc organization—not only short of food but also teaching without books. He was the only European... |
| Textual Features | Pearl S. Buck | Hilary Spurling
calls this text, a favourite of Mao Zedong
and the Communist Party
, a hugely popular saga of resistance against a corrupt and unjust government by a band of thirteenth-century outlaws. Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010. 189 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Pearl S. Buck | The three daughters of present-day China might well remind readers of the three sons of Wang in The Good Earth trilogy, and Buck had begun with Letter from Peking, 1957, on a project of... |
| Travel | Iris Murdoch |
Timeline
25 November 1936: Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern...
National or international item
25 November 1936
Japan and Germany signed the Anti-Comintern Pact, ostensibly to guard against the perceived threat of communism.
Thomson, David, and Geoffrey Warner. England in the Twentieth Century, 1914-1979. 2nd ed., Penguin Books, 1981.
163
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
15
Kinder, Hermann, and Werner Hilgemann. The Anchor Atlas of World History. Translator Menze, Ernest A., Vol.
2
, Anchor, 1978. II: 197
21 September 1949: Mao Zedong (or Mao Tse-tung), having prevailed...
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21 September 1949
Mao Zedong
(or Mao Tse-tung), having prevailed in China's bitter civil war between Communists and nationalists, convened and spoke before a Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. The Chinese People's Republic was only ten days...
1 October 1949: At Tiananmen Square in Beijing (Peking),...
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1 October 1949
At Tiananmen Square in Beijing (Peking), Mao Zedong
(or Mao Tse-Tung) proclaimed the People's Republic of China.
Zhang, Shu Guang. Economic Cold War: America’s embargo against China and the Sino-Soviet alliance, 1949-1963. Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford University Press, 2001.
50
Early 1958 to late 1960: Mao Tse-tung carried out in China the ironically-named...
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Early 1958 to late 1960
Mao Tse-tung
carried out in China the ironically-named Great Leap Forward, forcibly converting the peasants to collective agriculture and collective living and eating.
Becker, Jasper. “Business as Usual at the ’People’s Daily’”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 26-7.
26-7
Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 21-8. 21
August 1958: As part of China's collectivization programme...
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August 1958
As part of China's collectivization programme for agriculture, Mao Zedong
decreed that peasants should build large collective dining halls, shower halls, nurseries, and old people's homes to take over the functions of the obsolete family.
Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 21-8. 27
January-April 1960: Most of those who died in China's cataclysmic...
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January-April 1960
Most of those who died in China's cataclysmic famine died in these months, with grain supplies exhausted and new crops not yet ripe.
Becker, Jasper. “Business as Usual at the ’People’s Daily’”. London Review of Books, 29 July 1999, pp. 26-7.
26-7
Scott, James C. “Tyranny of the Ladle”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 23, 6 Dec. 2012, pp. 21-8. 21
1965: In China the movement which became the Cultural...
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1965
In China the movement which became the Cultural Revolution was launched, apparently by Zhang Chunquiao
and Jiang Qing
(wife of Mao Zedong or Tse-tung
), aimed at first against senior Communist Party
figures.
Gittings, John. “Zhang Chunqiao”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 May 2005.
16 May 1966: A circular issued by Mao, leader of the ruling...
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16 May 1966
A circular issued by Mao
, leader of the ruling Communist Party
in China, launched the Cultural Revolution in order to introduce a new generation to class struggle. The young Red Guards
were encouraged...
February 1972: US President Richard Nixon took the remarkable...
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February 1972
US President Richard Nixon
took the remarkable step of visiting Beijing with Henry Kissinger
for discussions with Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung
, restoring relations between China and the USA.
Schell, Orville. “Realpolitik’s finest hour”. Guardian Weekly, 16–22 Mar. 2007, p. 25.
25
9 September 1976: Mao Zedong (also known in the west as Mao...
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9 September 1976
Mao Zedong
(also known in the west as Mao Tse-Tung) died in Beijing, in his eighties. His death was followed by a series of cataclysmic changes in the Chinese political system.
Spartacus Educational. 28 Feb. 2003, http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/.
under Mao Zedong
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