The Strategic Value behind Revolutionary Art: The Trend Analysis of Studying Chinese Military Thoughts From Mao Zedong’s Poems in the United States

Dong XI, Chunni Lü

Abstract


Revolutionary art has long been a powerful medium for expressing political ideologies, inspiring movements, and shaping societies. The study of Mao Zedong’s military thought through his poems is a new trend in American academic circles, which, from the 1930s till now, first focused on military aesthetic research on the heroism of the “struggle and revolution” of Mao’s poems. Now, the research trend of the American academia can be summarized into two themes: military strategic interpretation represented by Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong, and the contemplation of military philosophy in Mao’s poetry within the context of the communist revolution in China. These three perspectives have been closely linked to the evolving international landscape and historical developments in Sino-US relations.


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Mao Zedong’s poems; Military thought; The United States; Struggle and revolution; Military philosophy

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