Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China.

About Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China

Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China is a book written by Robert Payne and published by Henry Schuman, New York in 1950, shortly after Mao Zedong came to power. Fifteen years before the Cultural Revolution, Payne anticipated Mao's wider interests:Mao holds all the arts of China in his hands. Lenin had neither the learning nor the inclination to assume the role of transformer of culture. Mao, far more widely read and with a comparable subtlety of mind, has clearly determined to accept the position thrust on him, and no one can foresee the changes in the basic structure of Chinese culture which will derive ultimately from his will.