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In 1951, Chen wrote an article with the title "Mao Zedong's theory of the Chinese Revolution is the combination of Marxism-Leninism with the Chinese Revolution" and a book entitled "Mao Zedong on the Chinese Revolution". These works made him one of the most important interpreters of Mao Zedong Thought, and in the 1950s he became one of Mao's closest associates, compiling many of the quotations eventually published in the Red Book.