Author : Zedong Mao
Release : 2008-06-14
Genre : Poetry
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 004/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poems of Mao Zedong by : Zedong Mao
Download or read book The Poems of Mao Zedong written by Zedong Mao. This book was released on 2008-06-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was also a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry.
