mao tse-tung Author:Stuart Schram by any reckoning Mao Tse-Tung must be regarded ae one of the greatest and most tremarkable statesmen of modern times. As a poet of distinction. as a political philosopher of major importance, and as a strategist whose 3000 mile trek across China has become legend, Mao has devoted his life to China and the Chinese peasants.Indeed the Chinese Peop... more »le's Republic has shaped a whole pattern of revolution for poor peasant societies.« less