Mao Zedong Poetry: A Chronicle

Author: Xiao Yongyi
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Publishing Date: 2004-12-01
Features: This book is a new version of the 1996-published A History of Mao Zedong's Poems, referred to as the "Jia Shen New Edition" due to its publication in 2004 to distinguish it from the former. By the end of 1996, only over 60 of Mao Zedong's poems had been publicly released, but by the end of 2003, the number had increased to over 70, with more related materials published subsequently. Therefore, the author of this book has carefully revised, updated, and made necessary deletions to the 1996 version. Not only does it enhance the moving stories in the original edition, but it also deepens the grand background of the poems. The book contains a total of 146 poems, along with 3 additional essays by the author, which are well worth reading. The previous edition of A History of Mao Zedong's Poems was plagiarized word for word by petty works, with the content entirely copied, the author's name changed, and a counterfeit book published under another publisher's name in 2002. This book exposes this in the Preface.