"Rousing Words-----Telling You About Mao Zedong, a Poet"

Author: Shi Yifan (Compiler)
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Publish Date: 2007-02-28
Features: This book collects a large amount of background materials related to Mao Zedong's poetry. The background stories selected cover the two major time and space periods of Mao Zedong's poetic creation and publication, with rich content. It also includes the author's fair and insightful comments, which provide readers with some reference value for understanding Mao Zedong's poetry. Mao Zedong was not only a great statesman, thinker, and military strategist but also a pioneering poet. China is a nation of poets, with countless poets throughout the dynasties, but few have had the same global influence as Mao Zedong. This is not only because of his unique historical position as a great statesman but also because, even purely from the perspective of poetic art, the exquisite linguistic artistry and majestic tone of his poems are unmatched by literati of past generations. The Mao Zedong poems quoted in this book are mostly selected from Selected Poems of Mao Zedong, published by the People's Literature Publishing House in September 1986. Additionally, Yu Mei · Pillow was chosen from People's Daily on December 26, 1994, edited and revised by the Documentation and Research Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Due to the limitations of space, some poems from Selected Poems of Mao Zedong are not included in this book.