Mao Works
Book: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. I, (Peking: FLP, 1st ed., 1965), 362 pages. Searchable PDF format [1,470 KB]
Book: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. II, (Peking: FLP, 1st ed., 1965), 484 pages. Searchable PDF format [1,938 KB]
Book: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. III, (Peking: FLP, 1st ed., 1965), 356 pages. Searchable PDF format [1,479 KB]
Book: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. IV, (Peking: FLP, 1st ed., 1961), 472 pages. Searchable PDF format [1,871 KB]
Book: Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. V, (Peking: FLP, 1st ed., 1977), 534 pages. Searchable PDF format [1,924 KB]
Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung (Older 5-volume Lawrence & Wishart edition with slightly different translations):
Book: Volume 1: March 1926—July 1937 (London: L&W, 1954), 340 pages. PDF format [9,572 KB]
Book: Volume 2: August 1937—November 1938 (London: L&W, 1954), 300 pages. PDF format [9,579 KB]
Book: Volume 3: May 1939—May 1941 (London: L&W, 1954), 266 pages. PDF format [7,956 KB]
Book: Volume 4: March 1941—August 1945 (London: L&W, 1956), 352 pages. PDF format [9,617 KB]
[Volume 5 not yet available.]
Concordance of Proper Nouns in the Five-Volume English-Language Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung [Index Volume], by Harry Lindquist & Roger Meyer, under Supervision of Robert Burton, (University of Kansas: International Studies, East Asian series, Center for East Asian Studies, September 1967), 76 pages. PDF format [7,329 KB]
Volumes Attempting to Publish Mao’s Complete Works for Various Periods:
Mao’s Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-1949, projected 10 volumes, 8 of which have now been published. Edited by Stuart Schram, Timothy Cheek, et al. These volumes are as complete, well translated into English, and accurate as the editors can make them. However, the editors are themselves bourgeois academics, something which has to be kept in mind. These volumes are not being produced for the benefit of the masses, but rather for academics and university libraries, and are outrageously high priced (often hundreds of dollars per volume!). It is almost as if the editors and publishers are determined to keep these writings away from the people! However, the first 8 volumes have nevertheless been scanned by individuals and made available at a number of places on the Internet. One such safe and reliable place is the “Left Side of the Road Blog”, at https://michaelharrison.org.uk/2017/01/writings-chairman-mao-tse-tung/.
Book: Writings of Mao Zedong—1949-76, Vol. 1, September 1949—December 1955, (NY/London: 1986), 833 pages. PDF format [29,855 KB]
Book: Writings of Mao Zedong—1949-76, Vol. 2, January 1956—December 1957, (NY/London: 1992), 985 pages. PDF format [42,339 KB]
Other Collections of Mao’s works:
Book: Selected Readings from the Works of Mao Tsetung, (Peking: FLP, 1971), 516 pages. PDF format [25,071 KB]
Book: Six Essays on Military Affairs, (Peking: FLP, 1972), pocket edition with red plastic cover, 416 pages. PDF format [11,938 KB]
Book: Mao Tse-tung: Four Essays on Philosophy, (Peking: FLP, 1966), 146 pages. [With a small amount of underlining and marginal notes.] Searchable PDF format [4,561 KB]
Book: Mao Tse-tung on Literature and Art, (Peking: FLP, 3rd ed. (2nd revised translation), 1967), 178 pages. Searchable PDF format [8,426 KB]
A Collection of “In Camera Statements of Mao Tse-tung”, 1943-1966 (but most from the late 1950s), unofficial translations which appeared in the Western academic journal Chinese Law and Government, Vol. 1, 34 (Winter 1968-69), 112 pages. Searchable PDF format [2,372 KB]
Book: The Wisdom of Mao Tse-tung, (NY: Philosophical Library, 1968), 118 pages. [With some underlining.] PDF format [9,089 KB]
Book: Mao Zedong: Report From Xunwu, (Stanford University Press: 1990), 278 pages. This is a report on the peasant movement and situation in Xunwu County in the southeastern corner of Jianxi Province, written in May 1930. It is not included in Mao’s Selected Works, and for many years was thought to be lost. This English translation, by Roger R. Thompson, was only published in 1990. The digital version is available for a free “1-hour borrowing” (access) at: https://archive.org/details/reportfromxunwu00maoz
Book: Chairman Mao Talks to the People: Talks and Letters: 1956-1971, ed. by Stuart Schram, (1974), 358 pages. [This copy has a lot of underlining; our apologies.] PDF format [21,400 KB]
Book: The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao: From the Hundred Flowers to the Great Leap Forward, (Cambridge, Mass: 1989), 594 pages. PDF format [22,574 KB]
Book: Mao Zedong on Diplomacy, (Beijing: FLP, 1st ed., 1998), 516 pages. [Readers will of course need to use some appropriate caution with this volume, considering that those who produced it had already led China completely back to capitalism by this time.] Searchable PDF format [29,516 KB]
Book: 《机密档案中新发现的毛泽东讲话》 [Newly Discovered Talks of Mao Zedong from a Confidential Archive], edited, with an introduction, by Song Yongyi, published by the National History Publishing House, June 2018, 344 pages, in Chinese. Although the editor is an anti-communist scholar who is opposed to the Cultural Revolution, the information in this book is nevertheless quite valuable. It is a collection of about 85 items by Mao, many of which are talks with foreign visitors, from 1955 to 1976, including Khrushchev, Nehru, Le Duan, and Kim Il Sung. Many important topics are discussed. For example, on p. 168, Mao and Yao Wenyuan discuss the Japanese revolutionary road with the visiting Japanese revolutionaries and Mao agrees with the strategy the Japanese comrades present. Mao says: “I think the opinion of Comrade Anshin is correct. My statement on the tasks of the proletarian party in capitalist countries in 1938 is still valid.” Here Mao is reaffirming his 1938 opinion that while protracted people's war was the correct strategy in countries like China, it was not the appropriate revolutionary strategy in advanced bourgeois democratic countries. Chinese: Searchable PDF format [1,486 KB]
Pamphlet versions of Mao’s works:
“Analysis of the Classes in Chinese Society”, by Mao Tse-tung, March 1926. (Peking: FLP, 1967), 4th ed. (2nd printing), 24 pages. Searchable PDF format [789 KB]
“Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan”, by Mao Tse-tung, March 1927. (Peking: FLP, 1965), 2nd ed., 64 pages. Searchable PDF format [2,405 KB]
“Why Is It That Red Political Power Can Exist In China?”, by Mao Tse-tung, 1928. (Peking: FLP, 1967), 2nd ed. (2nd printing), 28 pages. PDF format [965 KB]
“A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire”, by Mao Tse-tung, Jan. 5, 1930. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 28 pages. PDF format [965 KB]
“On the Tactics of Fighting Japanese Imperialism”, by Mao Tse-tung, Dec. 27, 1935, 2nd edition, 52 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1960) PDF format [1,920 KB]
“On the Tactics Against Japanese Imperialism”, by Mao Tse-tung, Dec. 27, 1935, 3rd edition, 52 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1965) PDF format [1,932 KB]
“For the Mobilization of All the Nation’s Forces for Victory in the War of Resistance”, by Mao Tse-tung, Aug. 25, 1937. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 2nd ed. (revised translation 1966), 20 pages. PDF format [667 KB]
“Urgent Tasks Following the Establishment of Kuomintang-Communist Co-operation”, by Mao Tse-tung, Sept. 29, 1937. (Peking: FLP, 1967), 24 pages. PDF format [5,751 KB]
“The Orientation of the Youth Movement”, by Mao Tse-tung, May 4, 1939. (Peking: FLP, 1967), 24 pages. PDF format [3,760 KB]
“To Be Attacked by the Enemy Is Not a Bad Thing But a Good Thing”, by Mao Tse-tung, May 26, 1939, small pamphlet format, 12 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967) PDF format [508 KB]
“China’s New Democracy”, by Mao Tse-tung. Introduction by Earl Browder[!]. (Toronto: Progress Books, 1944), 72 pages. [This major essay by Mao was written in January 1940, and appears in the different (authorized) translation under the title “On New Democracy” in the Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, Vol. II, p. 339.] PDF format [20,222 KB]
“Current Problems of Tactics in the Anti-Japanese United Front”, by Mao Tse-tung, March 11, 1940. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 24 pages. PDF format [1,351 KB]
“Preface and Postscript to Rural Surveys”, by Mao Tse-tung, March-April 1941. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 16 pages. PDF format [569 KB]
“Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art”, by Mao Tse-tung, May 2 & 23, 1942, 4th edition (2nd printing). (Peking: FLP, 1967), 52 pages. PDF format [569 KB]
“Our Study and the Current Situation”, by Mao Tse-tung, April 12, 1944, including the Appendix: “Resolution on Certain Questions in the History of Our Party”, 3rd pamphlet edition (revised translation), 98 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1962) Entire Pamphlet: PDF format [5,018 KB]; Mao’s Essay Only (20 pages) - PDF format [985 KB]; Appendix Only (72 pages) - PDF format [3,945 KB]
“Talk with the American Correspondent Anna Louise Strong”, by Mao Tse-tung, Aug. 1946; includes also “Some Points in Appraisal of the Present International Situation” (April 1946). (Peking: FLP, 1967), 20 pages. PDF format [3,788 KB]
“On Strengthening the Party Committee System”, by Mao Tse-tung, Sept. 1948. (Peking: FLP, 1961), 20 pages. PDF format [1,069 KB]
“On the People’s Democratic Dictatorship”, by Mao Tse-tung, 1949. (Peking: FLP, 9th ed. 1967), 30 pages. [With a small amount of underlining and marginal notes.] PDF format [1,098 KB]
“On the Question of Agricultural Co-operation”, by Mao Tse-tung, July 3, 1955. (Peking: FLP, 1966), 3rd ed. (2nd revised translation 1966), 44 pages. PDF format [3,364 KB]; PDF format [smaller file] [961 KB]
“Chairman Mao Tse-tung’s Important Talks with Guests from Asia, Africa and Latin America”, which took place in May and June 1960, 4th ed., 16 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1966) Searchable PDF format [676 KB]
“Five Documents on Literature and Art”, by Mao Tse-tung, pocket edition, 20 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967) Searchable PDF format [464 KB]
Three Articles: “Serve the People”, “In Memory of Norman Bethune” and “The Foolish Old Man Who Removed the Mountains”, by Mao Tse-tung, 20 pages. (Peking: FLP, 1967) [These 3 short items are often called the “three constantly read articles”.] Searchable PDF format [593 KB]
