★The award-winner of the 5th China Publishing Government Award and the 7th China Outstanding Publication Award!
★A masterpiece that deeply demonstrates Mao Zedong's reading wisdom and the trajectory of the formation and development of his thoughts!
★Chen Jin, a famous expert in Party history and his team spend twenty years of in searching and combing Mao Zedong's reading notes through his life to make an objective interpretation.
★The book is informative, comprehensive, incisive and objective.

4 titls: Strategy Volume, Philosophy Volume, Literature Volume, and History-Appendix Volume

Mao Zedong's life has been a magnificent one, thanks to his dual adeption of the pen and the sword, and his skill in both learning and use. He read extensively, dialectically draws the essence of the books to flexibly apply the text knowledge to the practice of governance, which leads to the greatness of the New China. This book is divided into Strategy Volume, Philosophy Volume, Literature Volume and History-Appendix Volume. Readers can learn about Mao’s reading life and reading philosophy, recognize the source and development trajectory of Mao Zedong Thought, as well as understand how text knowledge is flexibly applied to the decision-making and governance of the Party and the country at different stages of history.

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.

Politics

Bring Western Elements to the East - Conclude from Zheng Guanying's Warning in a Prosperous Age
I Have the Feeling of Making a Clarion Call - Conclude from Liang Qichao's Editorship of the Chinese Progress and New Citizen Journal
Build Constitutional Monarchy to Win People's Support - Conclude from Liang Qichao's New Citizen
I've Found Exciting Material - Conclude from Min - li Pao Edited by Yu Youren
Evolution and Struggling for Survival - Conclude from Yan Fu's Translation of Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays by Huxley and The Origin of Species by Darwin
People Live in a Divided Age, but They Want to Be in the Reunion - Conclude from Kang Youwei 's Book of Great Harmony
It Proposes a Simple Platform for the Democratic Revolution - Conclude from Zou Rong's Revolutionary Army
The Bourgeoisie Was Most Alive at that Time - Conclude from Su News, Min News, Dajiang Newspaper, and Jia Yin
Communism is a Good Friend of the Three People's Principles - Conclude from Sun Yat - sen's The Three Principles of the People
Recognizing Chen Duxiu as a Star of the Ideological Field - Conclude from LA JEUNESSE Edited by Chen Duxiu
I Admire Hu Shi's writings - Conclude from Hu Shi's Study More Problems and Talk Less About Doctrines
Build a New Village in Yuelu Mountain - Conclude from Zhou Zuoren's New Village in Japan
Where do the Social and Cultural Differences between China and the West Come from? - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
Is it Ethical Orientation or Class Antagonism? - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
The Highs and Lows of Chinese and Western Societies and Cultures in Modern Times - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
Content of Concise Interpretation of Reading Notes
What's the Way Out of China's Social and Cultural Crisis - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
To Refute Pseudo Three People's Principles - Conclude from Ye Qing's Essay on the Three People's Principles
The Fate of Two Chinas - Conclude from Chiang Kai - shek's The Fate of China
It is Unrealistic for the Whole Bourgeoisie to Accept Marxism - Conclude from Issues 1 - 3 of Study magazine in 1952
It's a Great Help to the Readers - Conclude from Li Da's Critique of Hu Shi's Political Thought
The Way to Develop Science - Conclude from Li Ruqi'S Talk about the Hundred Schools of Thought from Genetics
Rewarding Return to My Hometown Every Summer Vacation - Conclude from Wang Guiqin's Diary of a Summer Vacation to the Countryside
To the Library for Studying Marx and Lenin - Conclude from Ma Guorong Who Eradicates Salmonella and Sun Shougang Makes a Quality of Silicone over Britain
Worth to read - Conclude from Tsiolkovsky, the Daring Fantasist by Xinhua News Agency
It's an Interesting Poem - Conclude from Fan County in Shandong Province Proposes Transition to Communism in 1960
First, It's Very Inspiring, and Second, It's Quite Inadequate - Conclude from On Communist Society by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin edited by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee
I'll Take It in Just Two Words: Class Struggle - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, Class Warfare by Kautsky and A History of Socialism by Kirkup
Every Time I Read It, I'm Inspired by Something New - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
The History of Mankind is the History of Class Struggle - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
What Has the West Brought with It? - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Open up Your Political Views at Any Time - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Don't Be Afraid to Develop Capitalism - Conclude from Lenin's Two Strategies of the Social Democratic Party in the Democratic Revolution
The State is an Instrument of Class Oppression - Conclude from Lenin's The State and Revolution
The Left is as Dangerous as the Right - Conclude from Lenin's The Infantilism of the Left in the Communist Movement
Indiscipline Must Be Eliminated - Conclude from Lenin’s The Infantilism of the Left in the Communist Movement
China's Search for Truth Is Similar to Russia's - Conclude from Lenin’s The Infantilism of the Left in the Communist Movement
Small Production Produces Capitalism - Conclude from Lenin’s The Infantilism of the Left in the Communist Movement
The Chinese Revolution is Part of the World Revolution - Conclude from Stalin's October Revolution and the National Question
We Are Revolutionary Transformationists - Conclude from Stalin's On the Foundations of Leninism
Recognizing and Using the Basic Contradictions of the Imperialist Era - Conclude from Stalin's On the Foundations of Leninism
The Party Must Be Bolshevized - Conclude from Stalin’s On the Future of the German Communist Party and Bolshevization
The Chinese Revolution Is Essentially a Peasant Revolution - Conclude from Stalin’s On the National Question in Yugoslavia
Cadres Decide Everything - Conclude from Stalin's Speech at the Graduation Ceremony of the Cadets of the Red Army Academy in the Kremlin
New and Old Cadres Complement Each Other - Conclude from Stalin's Summary Report on the Work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party at the 18th Party Congress
It's a Good Book Worth to read More Often - Conclude from History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
Work in the Spirit of Lenin - Conclude from History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
The Truth Is not to Be Intimidated by Appearances - Conclude from History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)
Combination of Universal Laws and Specific Characteristics - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Proletarian Party to Stand in Front of the Democratic Revolution - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Socialist Revolution Is an Objective Necessity - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Two-Handed Policy of the Revolution - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Revolution Is Easier in Backward Countries - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Socialist Revolution in China is Very Sharp - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The People's Democratic United Front Is Established during the Long Revolutionary War - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Relationship between the People's Democratic Dictatorship and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The People Themselves Must Manage the Superstructure - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
China's Embarkation on the Road to Socialism Is not Dependent on the Help of Other Countries - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Socialism May Be Divided into Two Stages - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Transition to communism is also a revolution - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
There Are Many Stages in the Future Communist Society - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Masses Can Create the Path - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Please Study Whether Our People's Communes Will Collapse or Not - Conclude from Khrushchev's Speech on The Road of Cooperativization Is the Right Road for Peasants at the Mass Meeting of Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Placzew in Poznańskie, Poland, July 18, 1959
Corrupt us with peaceful transformation - Conclude from Dulles' Policy toward the Far East and Other Books
It's a Very Interesting Book - Conclude from Montgomery's A Sober Approach

Military Science

His Words Inspire Me to Study the Military - Conclude from Sun Wu's The Art of War
Flexibility is the Centerpiece of War Command - Conclude from Sun Wu's The Art of War
Know Your Enemy and Know Yourself: Don't Take This Statement Lightly - Conclude from Sun Wu's The Art of War: Strategies and Attacks
To Give Way First Is the Magic Weapon to Win with Weakness - Conclude from The Commentary of Zuo: The Tenth Year of Zhuanggong
It is ominous to kill surrenderers - Conclude from Chen Shou's Records of the Three Kingdoms and Others
Liu Bei Should Fight a War of Movement in Battle of Yiling - Conclude from Lu Bi's Variorum of Records of the Three Kingdoms: Book of Wu - Biography of Lu Xun
Lu Xun Uses the Plan That Sima Yi Used to Defeat Kongming - Conclude from Lu Bi's Variorum of Records of the Three Kingdoms: Book of Wu - Biography of Lu Xun
Wei Rui Is a General in the Style of Liu Xiu and Zhou Yu - Conclude from Li Yanshou's History of Southern Dynasties: Biography of Wei Rui
Foolish Attackers and Wise Defenders - Conclude from Xue Juzheng and others' Old History of the Five Dynasties: Biography of Dong Zhang
Crisis Includes the Opportunity to Turn Defense into Offense - Conclude from Xue Juzheng and others' Old History of the Five Dynasties: The Book of Tang - The Chronicles of Emperor Wu
A Little Knowledge of Military Books Is Enough, but Not Much - Conclude from Ouyang Xiu's Historical Records of the Five Dynasties: Biography of Liu and Historical Records of the Five Dynasties: Biography of Liu Renshan
Zhuge Liang Always Has Less than Two Military Plans - Conclude from Sima Guang's History as a Mirror
Allied Forces of Six Countries May Have the Chance to Win Qin State - Conclude from Su Xun's On the Six States
Mistake of Shu Han Is at the Beginning of Two Division of Forces in Jingzhou and Xichuan - Conclude from Su Xun's Xiang Ji
With Four Sides All Against, Liu Yu’s Win with fewer Military Can Be Described as Strange - Conclude from Yuan Shu's The Cart before the Horse of the Tongjian Chronicle: The Rebellion of the Abolitionist Emperor
Right Decisions Always Make Things Successful - Conclude from Yuan Shu's The Cart before the Horse of the Tongjian Chronicle: The Destruction of Liang by the Later Tang Dynasty
Emperor Taizu of Song Doesn't Know the Art of War and He's no Match for the Khitan - Conclude from Tuo Tuo and others’ History of Song Dynasty: The Chronicles of Emperor Taizong
Seventeen Victories of Battles Just Due to Avoiding the Opponents Aggressiveness - Conclude from Chen Bangzhan's The Cart before the Horse of History Chronicle of Yuan Dynasty: The Use of Troops in Zhancheng and Annan
There Is no Such Thing as the Party Committee System in Military Districts - Conclude from Feng Menglong's Wisdom Trove
Qin's Defeat by the Sowing Discord Used by the Enemy - Conclude from Feng Menglong's Zhinnang
"The siege of Wei to save Zhao is a masterpiece of the past - Conclude from Feng Menglong's Zhinnang
Li Shimin's Use of Military Force Should Take the Weak as the Strong and the Strong as the Weak - Conclude from Feng Menglong's Zhinnang
The Soldiers Should Be Good at Swimming All - Conclude from Wang Lengyun's Records of Xiangjun
War Is the Continuation of Politics by Special Means - Conclude from Clausewitz's On War
Napoleon's Use of the Army Is Also a Concentration of Forces - Conclude from Various Versions of Biography of Napoleon
The Historical Role of Military Weapons - Conclude from Engels's Anti - Dühring
He Is Not a Big Fan of Nuclear Weapons - Conclude from Tyler’s The Uncertain Trumpet

Economics

Why Marx Is Able to Create This Book? - Conclude from Marx's Das Kapital
This Book Is Basically Correct and Attention-Grabbing - Conclude from Zhang Chunqiao's Breaking up the Bourgeois Ideology of Legal Power
Where Has Surplus Value Gone? - Conclude from Zheng Jijiao's Talking about the Elimination of Bourgeois Legal Power
Read This Book Three Times in the Context of China's Economic Practice - Conclude from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
"China Has Precedents" for the Creation of Socialist Economy Forms - Conclude from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
The Economic Law is an "Objective Law - Conclude from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Commodity Production Is Also Needed - Conclude from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Commodity Production Is not Limited to Personal Consumption Goods - Conclude from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
The Creation of a Socialist Political Economy Book Is a Great Achievement - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Political Economy Cannot Be Separated from the Productive Forces - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
A Lot of New Experience Has Been Gained in the Transformation of Capital - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
To Carry out a Revolution Is to Clear the Way for the Development of the Productive Forces - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
China Must Have Its Own Economic System - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
The Future Cities May not Be So Big - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
We Must Pay Attention to the Enthusiasm of Enterprises - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Industry Should not Be Emphasized to an Inappropriate Position - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Economists Should Calculate the Value of Land - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
We've Always Dedicated to Both Public and Private Interests - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
As Technology Develops, Relations of Production Change - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
People's Needs Are Gradually Satisfied - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
What Does It Mean to Build Socialism? - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Don't Talk about Building Socialism Too Soon - Conclude from Political Economy (Textbook) by Institute of Economic Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences
"Strategy Volume"

Politics

Bring Western Elements to the East - Conclude from Zheng Guanying's Warning in a Prosperous Age
I Have the Feeling of Making a Clarion Call - Conclude from Liang Qichao's Editorship of the Chinese Progress and New Citizen Journal
Build Constitutional Monarchy to Win People's Support - Conclude from Liang Qichao's New Citizen
I've Found Exciting Material - Conclude from Min - li Pao Edited by Yu Youren
Evolution and Struggling for Survival - Conclude from Yan Fu's Translation of Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays by Huxley and The Origin of Species by Darwin
People Live in a Divided Age, but They Want to Be in the Reunion - Conclude from Kang Youwei 's Book of Great Harmony
It Proposes a Simple Platform for the Democratic Revolution - Conclude from Zou Rong's Revolutionary Army
The Bourgeoisie Was Most Alive at that Time - Conclude from Su News, Min News, Dajiang Newspaper, and Jia Yin
Communism is a Good Friend of the Three People's Principles - Conclude from Sun Yat - sen's The Three Principles of the People
Recognizing Chen Duxiu as a Star of the Ideological Field - Conclude from LA JEUNESSE Edited by Chen Duxiu
I Admire Hu Shi's writings - Conclude from Hu Shi's Study More Problems and Talk Less About Doctrines
Build a New Village in Yuelu Mountain - Conclude from Zhou Zuoren's New Village in Japan
Where do the Social and Cultural Differences between China and the West Come from? - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
Is it Ethical Orientation or Class Antagonism? - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
The Highs and Lows of Chinese and Western Societies and Cultures in Modern Times - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
Content of Concise Interpretation of Reading Notes
What's the Way Out of China's Social and Cultural Crisis - Conclude from Liang Shuming's Theory of Rural Construction
To Refute Pseudo Three People's Principles - Conclude from Ye Qing's Essay on the Three People's Principles
The Fate of Two Chinas - Conclude from Chiang Kai - shek's The Fate of China
It is Unrealistic for the Whole Bourgeoisie to Accept Marxism - Conclude from Issues 1 - 3 of Study magazine in 1952
It's a Great Help to the Readers - Conclude from Li Da's Critique of Hu Shi's Political Thought
The Way to Develop Science - Conclude from Li Ruqi'S Talk about the Hundred Schools of Thought from Genetics
Rewarding Return to My Hometown Every Summer Vacation - Conclude from Wang Guiqin's Diary of a Summer Vacation to the Countryside
To the Library for Studying Marx and Lenin - Conclude from Ma Guorong Who Eradicates Salmonella and Sun Shougang Makes a Quality of Silicone over Britain
Worth to read - Conclude from Tsiolkovsky, the Daring Fantasist by Xinhua News Agency
It's an Interesting Poem - Conclude from Fan County in Shandong Province Proposes Transition to Communism in 1960
First, It's Very Inspiring, and Second, It's Quite Inadequate - Conclude from On Communist Society by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin edited by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee
I'll Take It in Just Two Words: Class Struggle - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels, Class Warfare by Kautsky and A History of Socialism by Kirkup
Every Time I Read It, I'm Inspired by Something New - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
The History of Mankind is the History of Class Struggle - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
What Has the West Brought with It? - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Open up Your Political Views at Any Time - Conclude from The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels
Don't Be Afraid to Develop Capitalism - Conclude from Lenin's Two Strategies of the Social Democratic Party in the Democratic Revolution
The State is an Instrument of Class Oppression - Conclude from Lenin's The State and Revolution
The Left is as Dangerous as the Right - Conclude from Lenin's …