Mao Zedong: Volume 1, 1893–1949

Preface; Introduction Tim Cheek; 1. Leaving home; 2. The college student; 3. Baptized by the great tide of the May Fourth Movement; 4. Man of action in the early years of party building; 5. Work inside the Guomindang; 6. March towards the Peasant Movement; 7. The thunder of an uprising; 8. Ascent to Jinggang mountains; 9. Opening base areas in South Jiangxi and West Fujian; 10. Opposing bookism; 11. The Red Army attacks not Nanchang but Ji'an; 12. Smashing three 'encirclement and suppression' campaigns; 13. Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government (I); 14. Chairman of the Chinese Soviet Government (II); 15. The long march; 16. Laying a foundation in the Northwest; 17. Before and after the Xi'an incident; 18. Summing up historical experience; 19. Outbreak of the nationwide War of Resistance against Japanese aggression; 20. Guiding armed resistance behind enemy lines and 'on protracted war'; 21. From the September meeting to the Sixth Plenary Session; 22. The struggle against friction; 23. The theory of new democracy; 24. Before and after the Southern Anhui incident; 25. Building up the border region and surmounting difficulties; 26. The rectification Movement (I); 27. The rectification Movement (II); 28. Proposal for a coalition government; 29. Struggling for final victory in the War of Resistance; 30. Chongqing Negotiations; 31. Peace or war?; 32. After the outbreak of a Nationwide Civil War; 33. Greeting the new high tide of the Chinese Revolution; 34. Going over to the strategic offensive; 35. Eastwards to Xibaipo; 36. Eve of the decisive battle; 37. In the days of the Great Decisive Battle (I); 38. In the days of the Great Decisive Battle (II); 39. Carrying the revolution through to the end; 40. Preparing the founding of new China.