Misty clouds fly past, still composed - Mao Zedong amidst the shifting tides of international events

Author: Zhang Shude
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: During the Mao Zedong era, China faced an exceptionally perilous international environment. Confronting powerful hostile forces and complex, ever-changing international situations, facing Soviet big-country chauvinism, Khrushchev's "stab-in-the-back," the US invasion of Korea and Vietnam, which ignited war right at China's doorstep, and facing Dulles' strategy of peaceful evolution, Mao Zedong, with his fearless spirit of "not fearing ghosts or believing in sorcery," his far-sighted and masterful strategic acumen, made a series of wise decisions that had a profound impact on the development of China and even the entire world.