Julia Lovell - Maoism: A Global History

Julia Lovell is Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Her two most recent books are The Great Wall and The Opium War (which won the 2012 Jan Michalski Prize). Her many translations of modern Chinese fiction into English include Lu Xuns The Real Story of Ah Q, and other Tales of China (2009). She is currently completing a new translation of Journey to the West by Wu Chengen.

She writes about China for several newspapers, including the Guardian, Financial Times, New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

Also by Julia Lovell

The Politics of Cultural Capital:
Chinas Quest for a Nobel Prize in Literature

The Great Wall:
China against the World, 1000 bcad 2000

The Opium War:
Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

To my father, William (Bill) Lovell, 19462014

. Mao and Zhou Enlai at Yanan, c.1936 (Pictures from History/akg-images).

. Mao and Jiang Qing (reproduced from The Challenge of Red China by Gunther Stein, Pilot Press, London, 1945).

. Woodcut of Mao (courtesy of Shanghai Library).

. Agnes Smedley, George Bernard Shaw, Song Qingling, Cai Yuanpei, Harold Isaacs, Lin Yutang and Lu Xun (reproduced from Lu Xuns Revolution by Gloria Davies, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2013).

. Edgar and Helen Snow (reproduced courtesy of Brigham Young University).

. Jacket of the first edition of Red Star Over China, Random House, 1938.

. Edgar Snow with Mao in northwest China, October 1936 (Pictures from History/akg-images).

. Hu Yuzhi on way to Singapore (reproduced from Wo de huiyi by Hu Yuzhi, Jiangsu renmin chubanshe, Jiangsu, 1990).

. Chin Peng (reproduced from My Side of History by Chin Peng, Media Masters, Singapore, 2003).

. Two Malayan guerrillas (courtesy of Roy Follows and Norman W. Doctor).

. Captured and deported MCP guerrillas and underground members aboard a steamer on way to China, late 1950s (courtesy of C.C. Chin).

. Mao welcomes Kim il-Sung, October 1954 (Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Images).

. Edward Hunter (AP Images).

. Clarence Adams (courtesy of Della Adams).

. World map (Ditu chubanshe, 1966).

. Poster of the peoples of the world waving Little Red Books (courtesy of Dong Zhongchao).

. Mao and Khrushchev at Tiananmen Square (Peoples Daily/Cambridge University Library).

. Kang Sheng and Deng Xiaoping returning from the USSR (China Pictorial/Cambridge University Library).

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. Sukarno with Mao (reproduced from Presiden Sukarno Mengundjungi Tiongkok, Kedutaan Besar Republik Rakjat Tiongkok di Indonesia, Jakarta, 1956).

. Aidit with Mao (China Pictorial/Cambridge University Library).

. Group of Indonesian anti-communist youths helping the army with the search for the Communist leader, D. A. Aidit, and his followers, 1965 (Getty Images/Bettman).

. Mao with visitors from Africa and the Middle East (authors collection).

. Julius Nyerere with Zhou Enlai (China Pictorial/Cambridge University Library).

. Scene from War Drums on the Equator (China Pictorial/Cambridge University Library).

. Chinese instructors in Ghana demonstrate how to lay anti-personnel mines (reproduced from Nkrumahs Subversion in Africa: Documentary Evidence of Nkrumahs Interference in the Affairs of Other African States, Ministry of Information, Accra-Tema, Ghana, 1966).

. Chemicals from Shanghai used for military training in Ghana (reproduced from Nkrumahs Subversion in Africa: Documentary Evidence of Nkrumahs Interference in the Affairs of Other African States, Ministry of Information, Accra-Tema, Ghana, 1966).

. Josiah Tongogora (reproduced from Re-living the Second Chimurenga: Memories from the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe by Fay Chung, The Nordic Africa Institute, Stockholm, 2006).

. Ho Chi Minh with Zhou Enlai (China Pictorial/Cambridge University Library).

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. Sukarno, Zhou Enlai, Chen Yi, Norodom Sihanouk at the 10th anniversary of the Bandung Conference (courtesy of Julio Jeldres).

. Zhou Enlai welcomes Norodom Sihanouk to Beijing airport, 25 April 1973 (Keystone/Hulton Library/Getty Images).

. Mao with Pol Pot and Ieng Sary in Beijing, June 1975 (API/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images).

. Jubilant Khmer Rouge guerrillas pose for the cameras after the fall of Phnom Penh, 17 April 1975 (Roland Neveu/LightRocket/Getty Images).

. Phnom Penh deserted (courtesy of Documentation Center of Cambodia Archives).

. Vietnamese militiawoman with captured Chinese soldier (reproduced from Brother Enemy: The War after the War by Nayan Chanda, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, New York and London, 1986).

. Li Fanwu punished for bearing a resemblance to Mao (Li Zhensheng/Contact Press Images; from Red Color News Soldier, Phaidon, 2003).

. Revolution is not a dinner party, Lui magazine, 1967, photograph by Frank Gitty (Francis Giacobetti).

. Robert F. Williams with Mao (Robert F. Williams papers; Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan).

. Portrait of Mao at the Sorbonne, May 1968 (AFP/Getty Images).

. Aravindan Balakrishnan (London Metropolitan Police).

. Idalgo Macchiarini kidnapped by the Red Brigades, 3 March 1972 (Archivo Mondadori; reproduced from Mara Renato e 10: Storia dei fondatori delle BR by Alberto Franceschini, Pier Vittorio Buffa and Franco Giustolisi, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, 1991).

. Dead dog hung from Lima lamppost by Shining Path militants (Carlos Bendez, Caretas magazine; courtesy of Perus Truth and Reconciliation Commission).

. Photograph of Abimael Guzmn, probably from the 1960s (Archivo Baldomero Alejos).

. Female Shining Path prisoners sing and march towards a mural of Abimael Guzmn (by kind permission of the photographer, Oscar Medrano).

. Anguish of a Peruvian Quechua mother searching for her dead son (by kind permission of the photographer, Oscar Medrano).

. Charu Mazumdar and comrades (reproduced from The Naxalites: Through the Eyes of the Police Select Notifications from the Calcutta Police Gazette, 19671975, ed. Ashoke Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Deys Publishing, Kolkata, 2006).

. Communist pantheon in Naxalbari (authors photograph).

. Naxalites in the jungle today (Communist Party of India (Maoist); reproduced from Hello Bastar: The Untold Story of Indias Maoist Movement by Rahul Pandita, Tranquebar, Chennai, 2011).

. Environmental destruction in Orissa (reproduced by kind permission of Sanjay Kak).

. Nepali Maoist leadership in the 1990s (reproduced by kind permission of Kunda Dixit from A People War: Images of the Nepal Conflict 19962006, Publication Nepalaya, Kathmandu, 2006).

. Baburam Bhattarai, Hisila Yami and Manushi in front of picture of Abimael Guzmn (reproduced by kind permission of Manushi Bhattarai-Yami).

. Victims of Maoist bus bombing (reproduced by kind permission of Kunda Dixit from