"Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically."

"Mao then rose from guerrilla chief in the late 1920s to a party leader in the mid-1930s on the Long March, the flight…"

"The question of how to deal with the legacy of Mao Zedong, how to separate man from myth, ranged among the most diffi…"

"One of the paradoxes in Mao as a revolutionary thinker is that despite the emphasis in his teaching on the need for r…"

"As he approached his death in 1976, Mao ruminated that he could claim two great victories: the conquest of China and …"

"Mao lies a-mouldring in his tomb, but his soul and his body of work will keep marching on as long as the C.C.P. remai…"

"Paradoxes are found in all great men. One need think only of the contradictory principles and impulses that motivated…"

"Mao’s key idea about the need for violent rebellion to sweep away social injustice and his practical strategies to ac…"

"The adulation Mao received during his lifetime and the outpouring of national grief evoked by his death may have appe…"

"The ever-growing historiography devoted to Mao does not present the clearest of pictures. Often depending on the poli…"