Mao Zedong Thought
By (Author) Wang Fanxi
Translated by Gregor Benton
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
2nd November 2021
United States
General
Non Fiction
951.05092
Paperback
326
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
A classic analysis of one of the most discussed political figures of modern times, newly available in English
Wang Fanxi (1907 2002) was a leading Chinese Trotskyist revolutionary. Born in 1907, he was imprisoned during the 1930s, and for the last decades of his life lived in Leeds in the United Kingdom. Gregor Benton is Emeritus Professor at Cardiff University. His books include Mountain Fires: The Red Army's Three-Year War in South China, 19341938 (University of California Press, 1992), honoured by the University of California Press as a special book in Asian studies and by the Association of Asian Studies as the Best Book on Modern China. His most recent book is Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 (University of California Press, 2018; co-authored with Hong Liu).