Study On Schwartz’s Mao Zedong Thought

Schwartz is an internationally recognized academic Chinese guru, representative scholar of John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, his research focuses on issues in East Asia, particularly interested in China, he is the only one focuses on Chinese politics, Chinese revolution and scholars of ancient and modern history of China in American.His achievements in Mao Zedong thought research is remarkable, not only creatively puts forward the term "Maoism" to abroad the field of foreign Mao Zedong research from news reports to academic argument, but also uses "heresy" demonstrate the Chinese communism is not a simple copy of Soviet communism, the later scholars had a significant impact.This paper tries to make a comprehensive system of Schwartz’s study of Mao Zedong thought, grasp the characteristics and methods of the study, based on the academic contribution and examine shortcomings, explore its practical significance and contemporary enlightenment, improve the scientific and value of theory and method in the domestic research on Mao Zedong thought.Besides the introduction and conclusion, this paper has five parts:The first part grasp Schwartz’s academic career and academic status, describe Schwartz in stages of the context of production and development of Mao Zedong thought. The quality of his studious and his interest in issues of China is the inner driving force to Schwartz’s lifelong study, He come into contact with China in the second world war, his doctoral tutor Fairbank made him deeply in love with China and Mao Zedong thought after his return, and his efforts to study is really good conforms to the needs of America’s China policy consulting. Common drive of internal cause and external cause let Schwartz puts glorious greatly in the field of Mao Zedong thought research, he put forward "Maoism"," heresy" said creative insight is still important topic of research in this field at home and abroad now. The second part interprets Schwartz’s Mao Zedong thought research completely, analyze his ideas in three parts. Schwartz traces the origin of Mao Zedong thought by combining Marxism with Chinese traditional culture, he thinks that Mao Zedong thought contains the philosophy of voluntarism, theory of practice and contradiction theory, analyze heresy of "Maoism" from the Chinese communist movement and Mao Zedong’s Party building thought.The third part of the analysis from the main characteristics of the unique Schwartz, He has strong academic point of view, insist on combining the political and intellectual history, Understanding "Maoism" from his conscious activity,, insists on combining the ideological spectrum with problem consciousness, he not only contrasts Mao Zedong thought with Marxism in order to highlights its creativity, but also attaches great importance to the culturally stared to Mao Zedong thought.The fourth part makes an objective evaluation of shortcomings of Schwartz’s Mao Zedong thought research. Due to the impact of social and emotional cognition and memory, Schwartz’s theory inevitably marked by ideological factions, make a priori presupposition for the essence of Marxism, and take in text reading mode, so we must correct our position and value when we read it.The fifth part tries to find the reality enlightenment of the research, including: Mao Zedong studies must have a global view both at home and abroad, the introduction of modern scientific thinking methods to improve the analysis of the scientific and theoretical value, broaden new realm of Mao Zedong study in academic criticism.