Raging clouds fly across, yet still at ease: 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 extremely 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 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 evil," his far-sighted and strategic prowess, made a series of wise decisions that had a profound impact on the development of China and even the entire world.