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.