This book selects the memories of 273 people including Mao Zedong's teachers, classmates, comrades-in-arms, staff around him, relatives, foreign leaders, and ambassadors to China, and records Mao Zedong's life comprehensively, objectively and in detail. This book contains detailed and profound records of major historical events in each period. It provides an objective and vivid portrayal of the historical background, the inner story, the truth, and the personal feelings of the parties involved. The detailed memories are full of profound implications.
Volume 1, by Zhou Enlai, Li Lisan, Cai Hesen, Chen Tanqiu, Xiao San, Mao Yuju, Yang Changji, Li Weihan, Luo Zhanglong and others, tells the story of Mao Zedong's studies, joining the army, founding the Xinmin Society, promoting Hunan autonomy, participating in party building, leading the labor movement, serving in the Kuomintang, studying the peasant movement, and experiencing the failure of the Great Revolution from 1893 to 1927.
Volume 2, by Tan Zhenlin, Xu Haidong, Hu Qiaomu, Edgar Snow, Yang Chengwu, Xi Zhongxun, Cheng Zihua, and He Changgong, tells the story of Mao Zedong's leadership of the Autumn Harvest Uprising from 1927 to 1945, the creation of the first rural base area, the command of counter-campaigns against "encirclement and suppression", the seizure of military power to regaining military power, leading the Long March, and the Yan'an Restoration and Rectification Movement.
Volume 3, by Liu Bocheng, Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Su Yu, Chen Geng, Yang Shangkun, Bo Yibo, Wu Xiuquan, Li Yinqiao, Shi Zhe and others, tells the story of Mao Zedong's negotiation in Chongqing from 1945 to 1956, coordinating the liberation war, establishing New China, visiting the former Soviet Union, adjusting industry and commerce, launching the "Three Antis" and "Five Antis", and launching agricultural reforms.
Volume 4, by Chen Yun, Peng Dehuai, Li Rui, Zhang Yufeng, Khrushchev, Michunovich and others, tells the story of Mao Zedong's rectification movement, anti-rightist movement, launching the "Great Leap Forward", convening the Lushan Conference, breaking with the former Soviet Union, revisiting class struggle, launching the "Cultural Revolution", shaking hands with Nixon, and the days of serious illness from 1956 to 1976.
