↑ “Mao Zedong”. The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World. Bản gốc lưu trữ ngày 21 tháng 3 năm 2006. Truy cập ngày 23 tháng 8 năm 2008.
↑ Short 2001, tr. 630 "Mao had an extraordinary mix of talents: he was visionary, statesman, political and military strategist of cunning intellect, a philosopher and poet."
↑ Fenby, J (2008). Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present. Ecco Press. tr. 351. ISBN0-06-166116-3. Mao's responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin, his indifference to the suffering and the loss of humans breathtaking
↑ Dựa trên tác phẩm Chính trị Trung Hoa, Vũ Nguyên (2020).
↑ Misreading Mao: On Class and Class Struggle, Paul Healy, Journal of Contemporary Asia Vol. 38, No.4, November 2008, pp. 535-559
↑ Peng Xizhe (彭希哲), "Demographic Consequences of the Great Leap Forward in China's Provinces," Population and Development Review 13, no. 4 (1987), 639-70. For a summary of other estimates, please refer to this link
↑ Chinese Village, Socialist State By Edward Friedman, Kay Johnson, page 243, as seen in Google Book Search
↑ Sổ tay Thuật ngữ Quan hệ Quốc tế, Khoa QHQT – Đại học KHXH & NV TP Hồ Chí Minh, 2013
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↑ Lin Ke, Xu Tao and Wu Xujun (1995). Lishi de Zhenshi: Mao Zedong Shenbian Gongzuo Renyuan de Zhengyan (The Truth of History: Testimony of the personnel who had worked with Mao Zedong). Hong Kong: Liwen Chubanshe. Page 150
