Collect The Morning Deluge I: From Maos Childhood To The Long March Showcased By Han Suyin Shown As Softcover

I of The Morning Deluge covers the period from the childhood of Mao Tsetung to the Long March, Volume II, also available in Panther Books, continues the history of China and the life of Mao up to the Korean War, Han Suyin was an extraordinary writer well researched and told in such a way that the book is hard to put down, I highly recommend for anybody interested in a proper biography of Mao amp a history of the Chinese Revolution, Extremely useful for anybody who wants to study the twoline struggle in the Party since its inception, Excited to continue on to the next volume and then on to Wind in the Tower,

Disappointed that Han Suyin, after rightfully lambasting Liu Shaoqi as the chief capitalist roader in the Party, ended up as a supporter of the Dengist capitalist counterrevolution of the lates her work here is unmarred by this later revisionism and capitulation and should be read by all.


This book is the first volume of a twovolume biography and is itself
divided into two parts, Dr. Han SuYin's talent with words, after all she is a writer not a historian, and her sympathetic view of the revolutionary leader makes this biography a real joy to read.
Nevertheless the reader should be warned that her account adheres to the official narrative even when historical documents suggest that Mao occasionally made strategic bad calls, I refer in particular to the role played by the Comintern and the dramatic events that took place inand the fact that, as early asat the August Plenum Ch'en Tuhsiu
had proposed that the Chinese Communist Party withdraw from the Kuomingtang KMT, while Mao continued his collaboration until Fall.
Between February
and September of, the forces of counterrevolution were released by
Chiang Kaishek, In April, Chiang carried out the massacre of the Shanghai
workers, True, Stalin continued to support the united front Chinese Communist Parti and KMT for another five months, but the tragedy was prolonged by Mao's adventurism, She sticks to the official version that communication between Moscow and the Chinese Communist Party was complicated by a language barrier, communist cadres' psychological dependence on Moscow, and blames Borodin, the Russian ambassador, for misjudging the situation on the ground and failing to timely inform Stalin about the KMT betrayal.
But Mao was a Marxist and had enough theoretical and analytical tools at his disposal to understand that a communist leader shouldn't rely on telegraph messages to make a strategic decision.
One shouldn't gloss over the terrible loss of lives that followed the decision to arm peasants so that they could take cities at a time when the KMT had already betrayed the revolution.
Nevertheless Dr. Han's book on Mao remains one of the most engaging and best written accounts of Mao's life i have read, Dry in patches, but really gripping in others, This takes this fantastic series of biography up to, Wellwritten journalistic summary of Mao's youth and participation in the Chinese Revolution however, Suyin's writing is rather hagiographic in tone, which makes me skeptical of the sequel, Decent as an engaging introduction to the period, not great as a historical source, Han Suyin Pinyin: Hán Sùyīn is the pen name of Elizabeth Comber, born Rosalie Elisabeth Kuanghu Chow Pinyin: Zhōu Guānghú, She was a

Chinese born Eurasian author of several books on modern China, novels set in East Asia, and autobiographical works, as well as a physician, She wrote in English and French, She died in Lausanne, Switzerland in, .