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Introduction Copyright 1977 by Stuart R. Schram
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From The China Book Project. The Early Revolutionary Activities of Comrade Mao Tse-tung is a translation of Mao Tse-tung t'ung-chih ti ch'u-ch'i ke-ming huo-tung,
by Li Jui (Peking: China Youth Publishing House, 1957).
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Contents
Introduction
by Stuart R. Schram
THE EARLY REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES OF COMRADE MAO TSE-TUNG by Li Jui
Preface
1. Student Days
I. Before Hunan First Normal School
II. School and Teacher
III. Independent Thought, Self-Steeling
IV. Study Notes and Marginal Annotations
V. Simple and Humble Work Style, Brave and Defiant Character
VI. Head of the Student Society, Running the Workers' Night School
VII. Organizing the New People's Study Society
VIII. "Not a Penny in His Pocket, a Concern for All the World"
2. Revolutionary Activities before and after the May Fourth Period
I. Organizing the Hunan Youth to Go to France under the Diligent Work and Frugal Study Program. First Trip to Peking
II. Patriotic Movement of the Hunan People before and after the May Fourth Period
III. Managing Editor of the Hsiang River Review
IV. Leading the Movement to Expel Chang Ching-yao, Second Trip to Peking
V. Unmasking the Warlord Government of T'an Yen-k'ai and Chao Heng-t'i
3. Activities Surrounding the Establishment of the Chinese Communist Party
I. Discussions on Communism and the Establishment of the Party 147
II. The Founding of the Cultural Book Society 152
III. Organizing the Society for the Study of Marxism 157
IV. Establishing the Socialist Youth Corps. Establishing a Party with Close Ties to the Masses 162
V. Founding Self-Study University. Training Young Revolutionary Cadres 170
4. The Early Labor Movement in Hunan Led by Comrade Mao Tse-tung
I. Going into the Midst of the Working Masses. Starting to Lead the Labor Movement 178
II. Winning over the Anarchists Huang Ai and P'ang Jen-ch'ilan 192
III. The Nationally Famous Anyuan Strike 199
IV. The Victory of the Changsha Masons and Carpenters in Winning Their Freedom to Do Business 213
V. The Victory of the Great Strike of the Canton-Hankow Railway Workers 229
VI. The Victory of the Great Strike of the Workers at Shui-k'ou-shan 239
VII. A Lesson for "Mr. Long Robes," Who Stood on the Workers' Heads and Picked Fault with Them 246
VIII. The Strike of the Changsha Trade Workers 254
IX. The Founding of the All-Hunan United Association of Labor Organizations. Arguing
Face to Face with Chao Heng-t'i 259
5. Conclusion 273
Appendix: The Hunan Peasant Movement during the First Revolutionary Civil War 278
The Rise of the Hunan Peasant Movement under the Leadership of Comrade Mao Tse-tung 279
The Situation in Hunan on the Eve of the Northern Expedition 286
The Seething and Stirring Agrarian Revolutionary Movement 290
Comrade Mao Tse-tung at the All-Hunan Peasants' and Workers' Congress 295
The Revolutionary-Counterrevolutionary
Struggle on the Peasant Question 298
The "Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" and a New Stage of the Hunan Peasant Movement 310
The "Horse Day Incident" and Its Lesson 313
Notes 319
Index 345 About the Contributors 355
