Themes
Thematic reading
One hundred and sixty-two essays grouped into six lines of reading, for thematic reading.
Six themes
Background · excerpts · modern relevance
Military strategy and revolutionary war
From guerrilla to mobile war, from defence to offence — the conception of war, strategic initiative, and the dialectic of 'protraction'.
Party building and rectification
Building the Party ideologically and in work style, and 'seek truth from facts' — a body of writing on how an organisation keeps internal unity and its capacity to act.
United front
Unite all forces that can be united — the evolution of tactics from the Anti-Japanese united front to the people's democratic united front.
Peasants, land and class analysis
The peasant question is the fundamental question of the Chinese revolution — the methodology of class analysis and the transformation of the land system.
New democracy and state-building
From the theory of New Democracy to the people's democratic dictatorship — a systematic account of 'state-building'.
Art, ideology and the method of thought
From On Practice and On Contradiction to the Yan'an Forum — a unified statement of worldview, methodology and cultural policy.