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Report from Xunwu
by Mao Zedong
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes, by Roger R. Thompson
Stanford University Press
1990
292 pages
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A lost manuscript of Mao Zedong and the extraordinary role played by rural indebtedness in the analysis. The photo shows Roger Thompson’s edition of a work that was hurriedly written up in May 1930 against the impending background of the Jiangxi Soviet, scheduled for publication in 1937, reported lost in 1941, rediscovered in 1950 but finally published only in 1982 when Deng Xiaoping decided he could use it to his advantage in struggles within the party because he saw it as a perfect example of Mao’s method of ‘seeking truth from facts’ (