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Title: The adventures of Mao on the long march by Frederic Tuten ISBN: 0-8065-0248-7 Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 1971 Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Of course it is history: it elegantly fooled Partisan Review
Comment: I read this book in the seventies. Its depiction of Mao was accurate and fascinating as to Mao's almost hallucinatory erudition. Of course it left out his brutal, autocratic side; it Caesarized him. I do not regard this as a flaw. Tuten was not trying to sell Mao or Maoism, but to open a magic door into his complex, vivid world. The interview portion was excellent; it fooled the Partisan review, which was quite miffed when it could not publish it as a true interview. It is a history of a facet of Mao's imagination: he had an amazing capacity to realize what he could imagine. Tuten makes this clear in Western terms, doing us all a service. His writing is imaginative and vital, and when you read the book you cannot imagine being elsewhere.

Rating: 1
Summary: This is a play, not a history.
Comment: This is not about CHina, any more than Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" is about Virginia Woolf. For info on Mao and the Long March, see Edgar Snow's "Red Star Over China" or Harrison Salisbury's "The Long March."