Mao: The Unknown Story

1 Praetorian Guard inaugurated: Guard Di Fucai’s account, in ZHEN, 1994, no. 6, p. 26. Date Garden: interview with Li Hsiao-li, 22 Oct. 1995; ORK, 14 July 1942; Shi Zhe 1992, p. 220; our visit to Yenan, Oct. 1994. Back Ravine: our visit to Yenan, Oct. 1994; interviews with Shi Zhe, 10 Oct. 1995 & 11 Mar. 1998, and with a Date Garden resident, 13 Mar. 1998.

2260 “I controlled that entrance”: interview, 10 Oct. 1995. Kang Sheng terrorized: Shi Zhe 1991, pp. 260–1; Shi Zhe 1992, pp. 208–9; Cheng Min, p. 305. Moscow condemned Kang: Dimitrov to Mao, 22 Dec. 1943, cit.; Titov, vol. 3, pp. 401–2. Pleaded with Mao: Zhong Kan, p. 437; Cheng Min, p. 307.

3 A sadist: Kang speech, Aug. 1943, in Wen Jize et al. 1993, pp. 104–8. Asses’ penises: unpublished manuscript of a person present. A voyeur: Shi Zhe 1992, p. 198; interviews with Yenan veterans. Mao limited Kang’s power: the so-called “Nine Guidelines,” 15 Aug. 1943, in WHY, 1984, no. 9, pp. 10–11; ORK, 20 Aug. 1944. “changing his views rapidly”: ORK, 4 Apr. 1943; interview with a historian with access to Liu files, 16 Mar. 1998.

4 Jiang Nanxiang; AVPRF, 0100/43/302/10, pp. 158–63 (Liu to Roshchin, 26 Aug. 1950).

5 –262 “Fuck you”: Quan Yanchi 1997, pp. 176–9. Mao ordered wife to go back to unit: interview with Xie Fei, 14 Sept. 1994; Zhu Zhongli 1989, pp. 221–4.

6 Her first victim, the nanny: interview with the nanny, 13 Mar. 1998; cf. Zhu Zhongli 1988, pp. 55–67.

7 “only wise leader”: Deng Liqun, pp. 18–20; YQD, p. 213; Central Party School, vol. 1, pp. 42, 45. “same old thing,” etc.: in Wen Jize et al. 1984, pp. 234, 252, 259–60. Reluctant to chant “Long live”: ibid., p. 208; interview with Yenan veterans, 5 Oct. 1993. Giant headlines: JR, 17 July 1943. Badges of his head: first to Central Party School members, Central Party School, vol. 2, pp. 74, 79; YQD, p. 196; cf. Wang Enmao, vol. 3, p. 267; Hu Qiaomu, p. 277. Head of himself carved: Central Party School, vol. 2, pp. 208–9. Portraits printed: interview with Yenan veterans, 11 Mar. 1998. “The East Is Red”: PRC Encyclopaedia vol. 3, pp. 2889–90. Red Prof’s wife described: Zhu Zhongli 1995, pp. 120–3; Bodyguard Zhang Zhiyou also recalled this episode, in Xu Zehao, pp. 374–5.

8 –264 History rewritten: Central Party School, vol. 2, pp. 40–1. Mao instructed: 28 Dec. 1943, ZZWX vol. 14, p. 143. 7th Congress delegates: YQD, pp. 43, 134, 154, 172, 201; Shi Zhe 1992, pp. 3–4; Central Party School, vol. 1, p. 24.

9 1930 original, Deng Zhongxia, p. 88; 1943 insert, ZR vol. 35, p. 47; CCP Xiangqu Committee Museum & Changsha Museum, pp. 122–3.

10 Verge of tears: YQD, p. 61; Lu Zhengchao, p. 513.

CHAPTER 26 “Revolutionary Opium War”

1 Funding from Nationalists: Shaanganning Border Region government report, Apr. 1941, CASS vol. 2, p. 76; cf. Schran, pp. 171–2. From Moscow: Dimitrov, 25 Feb. 1940; Dallin & Firsov, pp. 122ff. (Chou asks Moscow to make up monthly deficit of US$358,280). Grain tax figures: Shaanganning Border Region government report, Apr. 1941, in CASS vol. 2, p. 74; Gansu Social Science Academy, vol. 2, p. 280.

2 –268 “driven to death”: Xie Juezai, p. 309. Harvest 20–30 percent down: Xie Juezai, p. 319. “strike Mao dead”: Mao speech at the 7th Congress, 31 May 1945, in Mao 1995, p. 211; also Mao 1993b, vol. 2, p. 303; JR, 5 June 1941. Doubled and added taxes: Gansu Social Science Academy, vol. 2, pp. 270–2, 280, 287–8. “feigning madness”: Mao speech, 12 Apr. 1945, in Yang Guoyu diary, YQD, p. 202. “Mao has no eyes”: interviews with Yenan veterans, 12 Sept. 1994 & 11 Mar. 1998. Cook figures: Mao figure: 160,000 shi, in Yenan Museum, visit, Oct. 1994, and in RR, 26 Dec. 1981; but real figure 200,000 shi, JR, 21 Sept. 1943; Chen Yung-fa, p. 290; Xie Juezai, p. 579. Xie noted in diary: 24 Feb. 1944, Xie Juezai, pp. 579–80. 1,000 families fled: Chen Yung-fa, p. 299.