My First Source: Mao For Beginners By Mao Tsetung

My first source is Mao Tsetung and China. The book has a hard red cover with the title on the side of it and contains one hundred sixty-six pages. It has information on a few wars that involved China and the youth and history of Mao Tsetung with some of his accomplishments. A few pictures can be found in the book including some of Mao and events that happened in China. The author was a Professor of the East Asian Section of the Division of History in the Research School of Pacific Studies until his retirement in nineteen sixty-seven. The book describes how Mao proved to the Chinese that he wasn't getting old by swimming the Yangtze at Wuhan and came back from his semi-retirement (FitzGerald 114). I find this an astonishing feat because he tricked

The book has a hard beige cover with the title on the front and the side of it. The book includes many pictures of important historical events and images to help the reader understand the material better. It also contains one hundred seventy-two pages with information on Mao's past and his influence throughout the history of China. I cannot find the author's credentials. The author talks about how the Red Army travelled six thousand miles through chains of mountains, rivers, deserts and swamp (Rius 98). This march is called the Long March which was the Red Army retreating and surviving attacks from the Kuomintang army lead by Chiang Kai-shek (Rius 93). The book also mentions that the Confucian tradition says, "[...] a girl was married off to a man of her parent's choice and then became the slave of her parents-in-law, of her husband, and even her son." (Rius 10). I think that the Confucian tradition was being very unfair to women because I believe all humans should be equal. Today, I think that most women in China have a lot more freedom and can choose their own husbands without being their slave. Although, I still believe that some women are still being treated in a similar manner around the