Mao's Road to Power The New Stage (August 1937-1938)

By 1936, after a decade of Civil War and even before the Xi'an Incident, Mao had begun talking about a "New Stage" of cooperation between the Guomindang and the Communist Party. With the establishment of a framework for cooperation between the two parties, and as Japan began its brutal war against China, Mao began to develop this theme more systematically in both the political and military spheres. This volume documents the evolution of Mao's thinking in this area, which found its culmination in his long report to the Sixth Enlarged Plenum of the Central Committee in October 1938, explicitly entitled "On the New Stage" and presented here in its entirety. It was also during this period that Mao delivered a course of lectures on dialectical materialism after reading and annotating a number of works on Marxist theory by Soviet and Chinese authors. These lectures, from which "On Practice" and "On Contradiction" were later extracted, are also translated here in their entirety.Schram, Stuart R. is the author of 'Mao's Road to Power The New Stage (August 1937-1938)', published 2004 under ISBN 9780765607935 and ISBN 076560793X.