Chapter 10 note
[1] Xiao Yu, pp.14~15.
[2] Ibid., pp.19~22.
[3] RS, p.133.
[4] Xiao San, Chapter 1, Section 7.
[5] Mao Zedong mentioned in 1959 that he did not like others to criticize himself, see CLG, vol. 1 and vol. 4 in 1968.
[6] The author confuses the "Three Kingdoms Period" with the "Warring States Period". ——Annotation
[7] TMD, p.34.
[8] There is an error in the original text. Mao Zedong went to Dongshan, Xiangxiang to study after failing to study in Xiangtan. ——Annotation
[9] Xiao San, Chapter 2, Section 9.
[10] RS, p.135.
[11] Braids were a symbol of Chinese men’s loyalty to the semi-alien Manchu dynasty.
[12] CB, 900, p.10.
[13] RS, p.129.
[14] Ibid., p.138.
[15] Ibid., p.139.
[16] Ch'en, p.44.
[17] RS, p.140.
[18] RS, p.140.
[19] Li Jui, p.40.
[20] RS, p.141.
[21] Xiao Yu, pp.32~34.
[22] RS, p.141.
[23] Xiao San, Section 13 of Chapter Three.
[24] RS, p.142.
[25] RS, p.142.
[26] In fact, Mao Zedong first studied in the Fourth Normal School, and a few months later, the Fourth Normal School was merged into the First Normal School.Therefore, by the autumn of 1913, Mao Zedong was a student of the First Normal School.See here Li Jui, p.42.
[27] RS, p.142. For many details of Mao Zedong's life in the First Normal School, see Zhou Shizhao's article published in the second volume of "New Observation" (Beijing).
[28] Road, 1, pp.34, 73.
[29] RS, p.143.
[30] Li Jui, p.45.
[31] RS, p.143.
[32] Road, 1, p.82.
[33] RS, p.143.
[34] Li Jui, p.23.
[35] RS, p.149.
[36] Quoted from SS's Mao, pp.40, 46; Mao Zedong said in a letter (see Li Rui's book, page 83) that Western thinking has its drawbacks just like Eastern thinking.
[37]However—what a peculiar personality! ——Mao Zedong hated the few minutes of dumbbell exercises prescribed by the school, and even wrote satirical articles attacking those "mechanical" exercises.Mao preferred a physical "test" of his own invention.See here Li Jui, pp.28~29.
[38] Li Jui, p.30.
[39] Xiao San, ch.3, XVI; cf. English Version (Bombay, 1953), p.42; see also CB, 900, p.17.
[40]Xiao Yu ("Ming Pao Monthly", Hong Kong, 1968-10) further explained that the metaphor of "Twenty-Eight Painted Students" is "Communist", because "Twenty-eight" together is a bit like Chinese The word "total" in it.
[41] For Mao Zedong's first article, see "New Youth", 1917-04.
[42] "Central Daily", Taipei, 1972-11-04.
[43]The Alumni Association, developed from the Encouraging Society, recruits female students to join. It is an influential organization.See Xiao San: "Comrade Mao Zedong during the May 4th Period", contained in "Glorious May 4th", p. 19, Beijing, 1959.
[44]The author mistook Mao Zedong’s “Mutual Election of Characters” activity, which received the most votes, as an activity to elect the person in charge of the Alumni Association. ——Annotation
[45] "New Hunan News", 1950-07-01.
[46]It means "to restore the old system" in Chinese.
[47] CB, 900, pp.21, 15.
[48] Road, 1, p.104.
[49] Li Jui, p.61. And the author's 800 000 000: The Real China, p.124.
[50]Mao Zedong insisted on recording "Evening School Diary", which was written in ancient Chinese.See here Lynda Shaffer's Mao and the Workers Movement, p.113.
[51] Li Jui, p.64.
[52]RS, p.144; Li Jui, p.74. Said that Mao Zedong got "five or six echoes"; see also IAS, 1973/12, p.72.
[53] Road, 1, p.73.
[54] The combination of the words "Xin" and "Min" seems to be taken from the meaning of "Zai Xinmin" in "Great Learning" and "Zuo Xinmin" in "Book of Books".
[55] Xiao San, Chapter 4, Section 22.
[56] Road, 1, p.136.
[57] Li Jui, p.52.
[58] Ibid., p.82.
[59] Ibid., p.24.
[60] Xiao San, Chapter 3, Section 15.
[61] Li Jui, p.38.
[62] Road, 1, p.218.
[63] RS, p.149.
[64] Li Jui, p.330; see also Road, 1, pp.419~420.
[65] Li Yinqiao: "Fifteen Years with Mao Zedong", p. 28.