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Mao Zedong — Notes and Writings Related to the Cult of Personality
This page provides a list of links to specific instructions and commentary by Mao Zedong relating to the topic of struggling against the phenomenon of excessive praise of himself (“praising to the sky”) and of related aspects of the cult of personality during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In most cases the overall topics discussed are different than that, and Mao’s comments on the excessive praise of himself and/or other leaders, are only secondary matters. The links here are to the original Chinese-language documents unless otherwise stated.
A) March, April 1966 Notes and Revisions on “Minutes of the Opening of the Military’s Discussions on Literature and Arts. Lectures Held by Jiang Qing According to the Request of Comrade Lin Biao,”
《林彪同志委托江青同志召开的部队文艺工作座谈会纪要》的批语和修改（一九六六年三月、四月）
Chinese: PDF format [7 pages; 137 KB]B) A Set of Notes on External Propaganda and Foreign Affairs Work: March 1967-March 1971
关于对外宣传和外事工作的一组批语（一九六七年三月——一九七一年三月）
Chinese: PDF format [21 pages; 269 KB]C) An Essay on the Editorial Departments of Two Periodicals and One Magazine [People’s Daily, PLA Daily, and Red Flag (Hongqi) Magazine] “Advance by Following the Opening Path of the October Socialist Revolution” (October-November 1967)
对两报一刊编辑部文章《沿着十月社会主义革命开辟的道路前进》的批语（一九六七年十月、十一月）
Chinese: PDF format [5 pages; 120 KB]D) Notes on the draft of the “Central Committee’s Notification on the Request for Comments on the Holding of the Ninth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party”, November, 1967
对《中央关于征询对召开“九大”的意见的通报》稿的批语（一九六七年十一月）
Chinese: PDF format [3 pages; 86 KB]E) Notes on the Documents of Social Commentary in the Two Periodicals and One Magazine [People’s Daily, PLA Daily, and Red Flag (Hongqi) Magazine] on “Welcoming the Complete Victory of the Great Proletarian Revolution” (February 29, 1967)
对两报一刊元旦社论稿《迎接无产阶级文化大革命的全面胜利》的批语（一九六七年十二月二十九日）、
Chinese: PDF format [2 pages; 51 KB]F) Notes on Public Report on the Enlarged 12th Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party (October, 1968)
对中共八届扩大的十二中全会公报稿的批语（一九六八年十月）
Chinese: PDF format [2 pages; 56 KB]G） Notes and revisions on the Military Commission’s reply by telegraph of comments （December, 1968) on the “Constitution of the Chinese Communist Party (Draft)” and other documents (1968, 1969)
在中央军委一份复电稿上的批注（一九六八年十二月）、对《中国共产党章程（草案）》等的批语和修改（一九六八年、一九六九年）
Chinese: PDF format [1 page; 41 KB]H) Notes on the draft of Chen Boda’s speech at the Ninth Party Congress (April, 1969)
对中共九大报告稿的批语和修改（一九六九年三月、四月）
Chinese: PDF format [2 pages; 64 KB]I) Notes and revisions from reviewing the essay “Leninism or Social-Imperialism?” by the editorial departments of the two newspapers and one magazine [People’s Daily, PLA Daily, and Red Flag (Hongqi) Magazine], (April 3, 1970)
对两报一刊（《红旗》《人民日报》《解放军报》）编辑部文章《列宁主义，还是社会帝国主义？》送审稿的批语和修改（一九七〇年四月三日）
Chinese: PDF format [5 pages; 129 KB]J) Minutes of Meeting with Edgar Snow (December 18, 1970)
会见斯诺的谈话纪要（一九七〇年十二月十八日）
Chinese: PDF format [5 pages; 129 KB]; English: Snow’s Own Summary, PDF format [3 pages; 1,953 KB]K) Notes upon reviewing the essay “Long Live the Victory of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat” published by the editorial departments of the two newspapers and one magazine [People’s Daily, PLA Daily, and Red Flag (Hongqi) Magazine] (March 15, 1971) [A key document on the theory of protracted people’s war.]
对两报一刊编辑部文章《无产阶级专政胜利万岁》送审稿的批语（一九七一年三月十五日)
Chinese: PDF format [2 pages; 85 KB]L) On the revision on the draft of constitution as well as the struggle in during the Lushan Conference, see notice and materials of the “the Struggle to Smash the Counter‐Revolutionary Coup by the Lin [Biao]‐Chen [Boda] Antiparty Clique” issued by the Central Committee in 1971, document 77.
中共中央关于组织传达和讨论《粉碎林陈反党集团反革命政变的斗争》（材料之一）的通知及材料 【中发［1971］ 77号】.
Chinese: PDF format [13 pages; 732 KB]M) “Talks with Responsible Comrades at Various Places During Provincial Tours” (Summary)—Middle of August-September 12, 1971
《毛主席在外地巡视期间同沿途各地负责同志的谈话纪要》
[English translation included in Volume IX of Mao’s Selected Works; see especially pages 441ff.] https://www.bannedthought.net/China/Individuals/MaoZedong/Books/SelectedWorksOfMao-IX.pdf
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