Mao Zedong and His Advisors (Revised Edition)

Author: Fan Hao
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Features: Guo Huaruo, a marshal of the founding of the People's Republic of China, had served as the acting chief of staff of the Red Army of the First Front in the early days of Jinggang Mountains. During the Yan'an period, he served as the principal of the Fourth Branch of the Anti-Japanese Military Academy and was appointed as an advisor by Mao Zedong, working with him for many years. This book primarily tells the story of his interactions with Mao Zedong. In the early days of the Red Army in Jinggang Mountains, he was the acting chief of staff of the First Front Red Army, and many of Mao and Zhu's operational orders were personally drafted by him. When Mao Zedong faced exclusion and criticism, he consistently supported him. Mao Zedong once asked him, "Am I an advocate of narrow empiricism?" He was a renowned military theorist of our party and was well-known and influential in the Guomindang-controlled areas during the war years. Mao Zedong wrote him eight letters, inviting him to serve as his "advisor." He followed Mao Zedong throughout his life, but in his later years, Mao Zedong said, "This comrade's thinking has never been entirely in sync with mine over the decades."