The Poems of Mao Zedong

The Poems of Mao Zedong by Mao, Zedong. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780520256651.

Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the Peoples 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 Barnstones introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western readers understanding of Maos poetry.