Rethinking Mao

Nick Knight is professor of Asian studies at Griffith University in Australia.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Rethinking MaoChapter 2 On Questions of Method I - Rethinking Mao and the Mao TextsChapter 3 On Questions of Method II - The Marxism of Mao ZedongChapter 4 Working Class and Peasantry in Mao Zedong's Thought, 1923-1945Chapter 5 Politics and Vision: Historical Time and the Future in Mao Zedong's Thought: A Study of Three Documents, 1937-1940Chapter 6 Perspectives on Marxism and Social Change in Mao Zedong's Thought: A Study of Three Documents, 1937-1940Chapter 7 Mao Zedong and the "Sinification of Marxism"Chapter 8 Mao Zedong on the Chinese Road to Socialism, 1949-1969Chapter 9 From Harmony to Struggle, From Perpetual Peace to Cultural Revolution: Changing Futures in Mao Zedong's Thought

Distinguished China scholar Nick Knight has been researching Mao Zedong's thought for nearly four decades. Departing from recent conventional research, which tends to demonize and/or scoff at Mao, Knight takes Mao very seriously, both as a socialist leader and as a Marxist. In this important and aptly titled book, Knight reaches many innovative, balanced, and perceptive conclusions that will surely impact greatly on the future study of a man who, whatever his failings, was undoubtedly among the towering figures of the twentieth century.