This book is the popular edition 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. The book vividly tells the story of bringing text knowledge to practice, highlighting the significance of reading in judging the situation, formulating policies, communicating with others, and expressing inner thoughts.
Rich contents in the book elaborate how Mao Zedong brings text knowledge to practice to reflect the magnificent history of the CPC in a small way.

Based on the results of his research, Chen Jin, a famous expert in Party history, vividly tells the story of bringing text knowledge to practice, presents Mao Zedong's lessons of reading Chinese and foreign books in detail on politics, philosophy, literature, history, etc., and highlights the significance of reading in judging the situation, formulating policies, communicating with others, and expressing inner thoughts. With rich contents and typical examples, the book is a classic book for readers to understand how to apply text knowledge flexibly in practice and to recognize the trajectory of ideology formation and development.

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.

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