Mao Zedong read many books throughout his life. The most representative classical novels in China are undoubtedly "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "A Dream of Red Mansions", "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", etc.
Mao Zedong read these books repeatedly and savored them carefully, from which he could see the social background and the turmoil of the world reflected in the stories. He had a unique analysis of the characters in the stories, and saw through the profound philosophies hidden behind the stories. He combined these philosophies with reality and applied them to war, party building and socialist construction.
