“The statistic of 40 million deaths comes from this book by Yang Jisheng, who has written the definitive work. The English translation is but one volume; the Chinese original is three.”
Books mentioned in Sarah Paine — How Mao conquered China (lecture & interview)
From Dwarkesh Podcast · 2025-01-30
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“And he was a very fine writer, Edgar Snow. What Edgar Snow writes, Red Star Over China, you can probably go to Barnes and Noble and pick up a copy there. It's been in print ever since,”
“Sun Tzu advocates: never put your enemy on death ground. Death ground means that you just have no hope, that you're a dead person if you don't fight. So,”
“this book called On Guerrilla Warfare. It is not written by Mao. It took time to figure it out, for outsiders. It's written by Peng Dehuai and others, his generals. And so there were many”
“had been a guy, Jack Reed, who'd written however many days of the Russian Revolution, back during the Russian revolution he’d really popularised it and I suspect, but I don't know,”