Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China
Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China is a book written by Robert Payne and published by Henry Schuman, New York in 1950, shortly after Mao Zedong (here his name is transliterated as "Mao Tse-tung") came to power. Fifteen years before the Cultural Revolution, Payne anticipated Mao's wider interests: Though lacking some of the documents and details that were available in later years, the book discusses the party's history, including its foundation, in detail. In chapter three, Payne explains how "Pravda" in 1920 had wrongly reported the formation of a  Communist Party of China. This was actually a conference consisting of a mixed bag of anarchists and non-Leninist socialists which “ended in a fiasco”. A revised and updated edition was published in 1961 as "Portrait of a Revolutionary: Mao Tse-tung". The original edition has been republished several times in recent years: as a paperback in 2007, as a hardback in 2008 and on Kindle in 2011.