"The two editions, The Mountain of Books: Mao Zedong's Way of Learning and Use and Correct Reading Method: Mao Zedong's Story of Reading, incorporate the essence of Mao's way of self-study and of learning how to read."
-Wang Jianping, Director, Institute of Culture, Guangxi Academy of Social Sciences

This book is the edition for teenagers of The Essence of Mao Zedong's Reading Notes, the award-winning book of China Publishing Government Award and China Outstanding Publication Award, which is created by Chen Jin, a famous expert in Party history, according to the reading characteristics of young readers.
The book focuses on Mao Zedong's lessons of reading the excellent traditional Chinese classics as well as poems and writings, and his application of the knowledge and wisdom in the books, which fully highlights the positive impact of reading on the great man's personality development, poetry creation, and wisdom enhancement.

Mao Zedong, a great man of his generation, spent his whole life with books as his companion, and was a model of a passionate reader, leaving behind many good stories about reading. Aiming at the reading characteristics of young readers, Chen Jin, a famous expert in Party history, vividly tells representative reading stories of Mao Zedong's life from the aspects of familiarizing himself with the "Hundred Schools of Thought", keeping his hands on history books, loving to read poems, lyrics and fugitives, and skillfully reading classical novels, highlighting the influence of the excellent Chinese canonical works on the cultivation of Mao Zedong's personality, creation of poems and lyrics, and enlightenment of intelligence and wisdom. The program focuses on Mao's influence on the development of his personality, the creation of poems, and the enlightenment of his intellect.

Chen Jin is the former Deputy Director of the Party Literature Research Center of CPC Central Committee. For many years, he has been engaged in research on the literature of CPC history and contemporary theories, as well as writing for movies and TV documentaries. His writings have been awarded the China Book Prize, the National Five-"A Good Work" Project Prize, the China TV Golden Eagle Award, and the Huabiao Film Awards. His major writings include: Mao Zedong's Cultural Character, Leading the Way: Interpreting the Change of Thought, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin with China's Advanced Culture, Xiaoping in the Century-Interpreting the Charisma of a Leader's Character, The Pulse and Memory of the Great Era-from May Fourth Movement to Reform and Opening Up, The Reading History, Chen Jin's Autobiography and more than ten others. He is the chief writer of many large-scale TV documentaries, including Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Zhou Enlai, New China, Mao Zedong-A Poet Leads the Way, The Rise of The Great Nations, and On the Road to Realize the Chinese Dream of Nation Rejuvenation.

Familiar Learning about "A Hundred Schools of Thought"
What Did Mao Zedong Read as a Child?
Learn and Teach from the Analects of Confucius
The Great Learning Tells Us "There Is Ins and Outs in Learning, and There Is a Beginning and an End to Everything."
The Doctrine of the Mean, Which Teaches Us Not to Go to Extremes
Always Strive: Keep the Spirit of Righteousness That Mencius Told
Interedependency Between Woe and Happiness That Lao Zi Told Is a Dialectics
We Will Become the "Kunpeng" Imagined by Zhuangzi
Why Did Yugong Have the Power to Remove the Mountain?
His Words Inspire Me to Study "The Art of War"
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