Chapter 5 note
1] For the origin of the place name of Shaoshan, see TMD, page 15.
[2] See R. Payne's Mao Tse-tung, p.30.
[3] See CB, 900, p.10.
[4] See TMD, p.16.
[5] RS, p.124.
[6] Li Jui, p.6, Xiao San, Chapter 1, Section 3 have different explanations for this.Liu Dawen (transliteration) said in "Xinhua Daily" on September 8, 1945: Mao Zedong once gave money to a poor man.
[7] Xiao Yu, pp.6~7.
[8] Xiao San, p.11.
[9] The second child, Zemin, was born in 1896, 3 years younger than Zedong.
[10] RS, p.128.
[11] Ibid., p.125.
[12] Ibid., p.125.
[13] Regarding the incident of arranged marriages, see Sima Shu, "The Observatory News", Hong Kong, 1958-12-20.
[14] RS, p.131.
[15]In Chapter 1, Section 6 of Xiao San, it is recorded that it is a rice merchant, not a bean merchant.
[16] CB, 900, p.10.
[17] Xiao San, p.14.
[18] RS, p.130.
[19] Ibid., p.126.
[20] Ibid., p.130.
[21] Xiao Yu, p.11.
[22] Ibid., p.13.
[23]RS, p.130. H.Cummins's Mao Tse-tung: A Value Analysis (Edmonton) compared Mao Zedong's life with Xiao Ke, another important CCP figure, indicating that Mao Zedong's inner rebellious spirit had a certain limit of.
[24] There is an error in the original text, Zhang Guotao is from Pingxiang County, Jiangxi. ——Annotation
[25] Zhang, Volume 1, Chapter 1.
[26] RS, p.127.
[27] "Personal character" and "social character" are quoted from the appendix of E.Fromm's Escape from Freedom.
[28] RS, p.126.
[29] Li Yinqiao: "Fifteen Years with Mao Zedong", p. 28.