HUNAN RÉN & MAO ZE DONG: LEADER AND GOD

The following sections are included:

• Hunan: South of Dongting Lake

  • The Hunan spirit

• Mao Ze Dong: Leader & God

  • Beginnings

  • The decision at Zunyi: The start of Mao's ascendance

  • Mao: The great reader and poet

  • Mao's poem of the Long March and on self-esteem

  • Mao's marriages

  • The disastrous Great Leap Forward

  • The Cultural Revolution

  • Shaoshan: The birthplace of Mao

• Zhu Rong Ji: The Former Prime Minister

  • Beginnings

  • Zhu as Premier

  • My meeting with Zhu Rong Ji

• Victims of the Cultural Revolution

  • Liu Shao Qi: Mao's comrade in arms

  • Deng Xiao Ping: Former vice premier

  • Marshal Peng De Huai: The hero of the Korean War

  • Marshal He Long: The black general

  • Tao Chu: Another Mao victim

• Mao and the End of the Cultural Revolution

  • Dazhai and Daqing of the Cultural Revolution

  • A meeting with Mao Ze Dong

  • Mao: The idol

• Hunan Customs and Traditions

  • The Festival of Zongzi & the Dragon Boat race

• Zeng Guo Fan: The Chinese General who Fought for the Manchus

• Wei Yuan & The Maritime Nations

• Zuo Zong Tang: The Brilliant Hunan Defence Minister