History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's Thought

400 Pages·1973·30.362 MB·English

by  Frederic E. Wakeman Jr.

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History and Will
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HISTORY
and WILL
Philosophical Perspectives of
Mao Tse-tung's Thought
FREDERIC WAKEMAN, JR.
University of California Press
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London
University of California Press
Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd.
London, England
Copyright © 1973, by
The Regents of the University of California
Paperback Edition 1975
ISBN 0-520-02907-0
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-170722
Printed in the United States of America
Designed by Jean Peters
This book is dedicated to the three men
whose influence shaped it most:
my father, Frederic Wakeman
my teacher, Joseph R. Levenson
my friend, Irwin Scheiner

Acknowledgments
This book was written while I received sabbatical and research funds
from the Center for Chinese Studies of the University of California,
Berkeley and from the American Council of Learned Societies. My
research assistants, Jonathan Grant and Edward Hammond, provided
me with both materials and an opportunity to discuss some of the issues
dealt with here. Carolyn Grant, who edited the original versions of the
manuscript with such a keen eye, comes close to deserving a collabora-
tor's place on the title page, because so many of her thematic sugges-
tions are reflected in the contents. My colleague, John Starr, generously
offered invaluable documentary help with many of the Mao papers. I
am also very grateful to those members of the Chinese history colloquia
at Stanford University, of the Institute of International Affairs at the
University of Washington, and of the Research Scholars Group at
Berkeley who read and discussed portions of the manuscript. Finally, I
owe particular thanks to those fellow scholars who so helpfully scruti-
nized the first draft: Ch'en Shih-hsiang, Jack Dull, David Keightley,
Angus McDonald, Nicholas Riasanovsky, Moss Roberts, Irwin Scheiner,
Tu Wei-ming, Jonathan Unger, Frederic Wakeman, Sr., and Judith
Whitbeck.