Mao’s first major statement on the need for a strategic reorientation toward mobilizing the peasantry. Further Reading: Stuart Schram, ed., Mao’s Road to Power, vol. 2: National Revolution and Social Revolution, December 1920-June 1927 Philip C. C. Huang, “Mao Tse-Tung and the Middle Peasants, 1925-1928” Some names from this episode: Chen Duxiu, General Secretary of the Communist Party Li Dazhao, Co-founder of Communist Party