In my humble opinion, as a China person, if I can only read one book, I will recommend Selected Works of Mao Zedong first. I am very lucky to have read Selected Works of Mao Zedong. If you can read thoroughly, you will live a transparent life.
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As for chicken soup for the soul, inspirational anthology, story magazine, historical biography, etc. In the market, there is no harm in reading it, and it is likely to gain a lot of gains and insights. But on the whole, it is not as direct and systematic as Selected Works of Mao Zedong.
Someone once joked that there is not a successful person in China who hasn't read Selected Works of Mao Zedong under the bookcase. In fact, not only did some people learn the knowledge of enterprise management, but it was also said that some people really used the wisdom in Selected Works of Mao Zedong to overthrow the domestic autocratic regime. He was the first president of the new Republic of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
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As you can imagine, Selected Works of Mao Zedong should be obscure and boring. However, after in-depth reading, I found that the chairman understands everyone's understanding ability very well. However, although the whole article is written in vernacular Chinese, it feels easy to understand, but every sentence can hit the point. After reading it, I feel that truth is always full of interest, and the fresh air is like spring breeze.
The first to fourth volumes of Selected Works of Mao Zedong collected the important works of Grandpa Mao in various historical periods before the founding of the People's Republic of China. Except for a few pure philosophical works, most of them solve practical problems.
We can get a lot from it, but we should combine the historical background of Grandpa Mao's writing at that time when reading. Personally, I read the articles inside, generally according to the way of asking questions, analyzing and solving problems, and developing events.
Among them, the first article of the first volume is "Analysis of Social Classes in China", and Grandpa Mao pointed out the fundamental reason why the revolutionary struggle in the past few decades had little effect under the historical background at that time. And put forward the first question of the revolution-who are our friends? Who are our enemies?
Then, according to the economic status and attitude towards the revolution of all social strata in China at that time, the China society at that time was divided into six classes, namely, the big bourgeoisie (landlord class and comprador class), the middle class, the petty bourgeoisie, the semi-proletariat, the proletariat and the proletariat. And subdivide all classes, for example, the petty bourgeoisie is yeomen, manual owners, small intellectual classes-students, primary and secondary school teachers, clerks, small lawyers, small businessmen and so on.
Then according to the above analysis, we can get the answer to the question, that is, who is our enemy. Who is the leading force of our revolution and who is our closest friend? Which may be our enemies and which may be our friends.
Finally, combined with the specific historical period at that time, we can see that this paper successfully opposed the "right" opportunism represented by Chen Duxiu and the "left" opportunism represented by Zhang. It solved the most important allied problem in the China revolution and pointed out the direction for the success of the later revolution.
Through learning, I believe everyone can get their own feelings from it. Combined with my actual situation, I believe that through thinking, I can get the correct thinking and action methods, and even get a light to guide my life.
Someone on the Internet once wrote a poem praising:
Broad and refined ideas, clear and thorough.
The style of writing is a hundred generations, and the pen is heavy.
Give good advice to the world and make the country prosperous.
Dragon people have many meritorious deeds, which are beautiful.