Mao in Mufti: Newly Identified Works by Mao Zedong
Mao in Mufti: Newly Identified Works by Mao Zedong
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毛泽东的穆夫提作品：新鉴定的毛泽东著作
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10.2307/2159086
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发表时间：
1983
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J. Fitzgerald
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J. Fitzgerald
Mao Zedong was a prominent Guomindang (GMD) official in Guangdong for about a year between September 1925 and mid-1926, but little has been revealed about his activities during this period because his association with Chiang Kai-shek has remained a source of some embarrassment to historians on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. As the relevant files in the archives of both the GMD and the Communist Party of China (CPC) are closed to researchers, progress in mapping Mao's early years has inevitably taken the form of discoveries of his speeches and writings in places readily accessible, but hitherto verlooked.1 It is well known that during his stay in Guangdong Mao edited the GMD magazine Zhengzhi zhoubao (Political Weekly), from which a number of articles have been culled for inclusion in compendia of his collected works.2 I shall argue that Mao's most important contributions to this magazine have, however, been overlooked to date through failure to recognise that five additional articles published in this magazine under the name Ziren ( 1f) were also written by Mao Zedong. My attention was first drawn to the possibility of Ziren being an alias of Mao Zedong while leafing through the earliest issues of the GMD Propaganda Bureau's Zhengzhi zhoubao and noticing that the back cover publication details listed the responsibile person at the magazine's Guangzhou head office as Mao Ziren. The magazine's Guangzhou editor was in fact Mao Zedong. Could their shared surname have been mere coincidence? In pursuing this question a number of other coincidences came to light. In order to demonstrate that there was but one Mao in the Guangzhou office, I shall interweave the known facts about Ziren with relevant data on MaoZedong, and assess the significance of these coincidences.
Mao Zedong was a prominent Guomindang (GMD) official in Guangdong for about a year between September 1925 and mid-1926, but little has been revealed about his activities during this period because his association with Chiang Kai-shek has remained a source of some embarrassment to historians on both sides of the Taiwan Straits. As the relevant files in the archives of both the GMD and the Communist Party of China (CPC) are closed to researchers, progress in mapping Mao's early years has inevitably taken the form of discoveries of his speeches and writings in places readily accessible, but hitherto verlooked.1 It is well known that during his stay in Guangdong Mao edited the GMD magazine Zhengzhi zhoubao (Political Weekly), from which a number of articles have been culled for inclusion in compendia of his collected works.2 I shall argue that Mao's most important contributions to this magazine have, however, been overlooked to date through failure to recognise that five additional articles published in this magazine under the name Ziren ( 1f) were also written by Mao Zedong. My attention was first drawn to the possibility of Ziren being an alias of Mao Zedong while leafing through the earliest issues of the GMD Propaganda Bureau's Zhengzhi zhoubao and noticing that the back cover publication details listed the responsibile person at the magazine's Guangzhou head office as Mao Ziren. The magazine's Guangzhou editor was in fact Mao Zedong. Could their shared surname have been mere coincidence? In pursuing this question a number of other coincidences came to light. In order to demonstrate that there was but one Mao in the Guangzhou office, I shall interweave the known facts about Ziren with relevant data on MaoZedong, and assess the significance of these coincidences.