Problem
Mao Tse-Tung, "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung"
1. How does Mao seem to envision the relationship between the Communistic Party and the people of China? Why does the relationship seem to work this way?
2. What is the role of intellectual modernization in Mao's text? That is, to what degree should political thinking look back to Chinese tradition for its ideas rather than to ideas coming originally from Europe or somewhere else?
3. Pick something exciting from Mao's text and pick something troubling. Then evaluate the relationship between the two: are they necessarily part of the same intellectual project, or have they appeared together in more or less arbitrary ways?
4. Mao's text is presented in a way that has some visually similarities to the texts of Confucius. To what degree are there similarities and differences in methods of presentation, and to what degree do they seem important?