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Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
Mao Zedong, 1957 ©Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution'.
Mao was born on 26 December 1893 into a peasant family in Shaoshan, in Hunan province, central China. After training as a teacher, he travelled to Beijing where he worked in the University Library. It was during this time that he began to read Marxist literature. In 1921, he became a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and set up a branch in Hunan. In 1923, the Kuomintang (KMT) nationalist party had allied with the CCP to defeat the warlords who controlled much of northern China. Then in 1927, the KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek launched an anti-communist purge.
Mao and other communists retreated to south east China. In 1934, after the KMT surrounded them, Mao led his followers on the 'Long March', a 6,000 mile journey to northwest China to establish a new base.
The Communists and KMT were again temporarily allied during eight year
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Mao: The Unknown Story
2005 biography of Mao Zedong
Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) that was written by the husband-and-wife team of the writer Jung Chang and the historian Jon Halliday, who detail Mao's early life, his introduction to the Chinese Communist Party, and his political career. The book summarizes Mao's transition from a rebel against the autocratic Kuomintang government to the totalitarian dictator over the People's Republic of China. Chang and Halliday heavily cover Mao's role in the planning and the execution of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. They open the book saying "Mao Tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.
In conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of people who were close to Mao at some point in his life, used recently-published memoirs
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Mao Zedong
Leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976
For the TV series, see Mao Zedong (TV series).
"Mao" redirects here. For other uses, see Mao (disambiguation).
Mao Zedong | |
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Mao in 1950 | |
| In office 20 March 1943 – 9 September 1976 | |
| Deputy | |
| Preceded by | Zhang Wentian (as General Secretary) |
| Succeeded by | Hua Guofeng |
| In office 27 September 1954 – 27 April 1959 | |
| Premier | Zhou Enlai |
| Deputy | Zhu De |
| Succeeded by | Liu Shaoqi |
| In office 8 September 1954 – 9 September 1976 | |
| Deputy | |
| Succeeded by | Hua Guofeng |
| In office 1 October 1949 – 27 September 1954 | |
| Premier | Zhou Enlai |
| Preceded by | Office established Li Zongren (as President of the Republic of China) |
| In office 9 October 1949 – 25 December 1954 | |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Zhou Enlai |
| Born | (1893-12-26)26 December 1893 Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing dynasty |
| Died | 9 September 1976(1976-09-09) (aged 82) Beijing, China |
| Resting place | Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Beijing |
| Political
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