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.
- ISBN10 0520261623
- ISBN13 9780520261624
- Publish Date 1 January 2010 (first published 1 January 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 February 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 168
- Language English