Certain Quote by Edgar Snow

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an…

— Edgar Snow

“Some believe his political vulnerabilities have not only driven him into the arms of Mao but also the clutches of the country’s generals and…

— Gordon Chang

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very…

— Jung Chang

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding…

— Chiang Kai-shek

“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over 70 million…

— Jung Chang

I can understand the Cultural Revolution of Mao Tse-tung.

— Ferdinand Marcos

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another…

— Jung Chang

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to…

— Arundhati Roy

“Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see…

— Simon Leys

Air power and military are meant to fight the enemy and not your own citizens... How do you differentiate a Maoist?... It will create…

— Kishore Chandra Deo