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What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself ""Qin Shi Huang （First Emperor of Qin）plus Marx"". It can be said that he is an entity that combines the power of the emperor and the authority of Marx into one person. This book analyzes the features of Mao Zedong’s thought and philosophy, his understanding of Marxism and class struggle, in particular, his peculiar attitude toward intellectuals, his actions leading to the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which he initiated and involved the entire nation, as well as the analysis of the mechanisms that caused such catastrophes and tragedies.  Finally, through these analyses, this book attempts to evaluate Mao Zedong with diverse personalities and his behavior, positive and negative, whether in political, social, economic, or philosophical areas.

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Katsuji Nakagane is a professor emeritus of The University of Tokyo. He also taught at Hitotsubashi University and Aoyama Gakuin University. He obtained his Ph.D. in international economics at The University of Tokyo in 1992. He was formerly president of the Japan Association of Asian Studies, president of the Japan Association of Comparative Economics Studies, president of the Japan Association of Chinese Economic and Management Studies, and editor-in-chief of the Developing Economies. He has published several books on the Chinese economy, development economics and systemic transition in Japanese, such as Studies on the Chinese Economy (University of Tokyo Press, 1992), Studies on the Development of the Chinese Economy (Yuhikaku, 1999), The Political Economy of Systemic Transitions (Nagoya University Press 2010), Contemporary China and Development Economics (Nagoya University Press,2012), and Mao Zedong—The Truth Falls Down from Heaven (Nagoya University Press, 2021). Most recently he edited the English language book Studies on the Chinese Economy During the Mao Era (Springer, 2023).

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