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Mao Zetan. Máo Zétán (毛泽覃, also named Máo Zélín 毛泽淋, courtesy name first Yǒngjú 咏菊, then Rùnjú 润菊; 25 September 1905 – 25 April 1935) was the younger brother of Mao Zedong. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1923. In 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, retreating with the Communists to the Jinggang Mountains at its completion.
May 17, 2024 · Long March, (1934–35), the 6,000-mile (10,000-km) historic trek of the Chinese communists, which resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from southeastern to northwestern China and in the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed party leader.
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Nov 9, 2017 · A very detailed timeline of the life of Mao Zedong, later known as Chairman Mao, founder of the Communist Party of China showing dates and details
- Early Revolutionary Activity
- Leadership of China
- Public Image
- Use of The Media
- Personal Life
- Death and Aftermath
- Legacy
- Writings and Calligraphy
- Portrayal in Film and Television
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Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. He converted to Marxism-Leninismwhile working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
On October 1, 1949 Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China, a one-party socialist state controlled by the Communist Party. In the following years Mao solidified his control through land reforms, through a psychological victory in the Korean War, and through campaigns against landlords, people he termed "counterrevolutionarie...
Mao gave contradicting statements on the subject of personality cults. In 1955, as a response to the Khrushchev Report that criticised Joseph Stalin, Mao stated that personality cults are "poisonous ideological survivals of the old society," and reaffirmed China's commitment to collective leadership.But at the 1958 Party congress in Chengdu, Mao ex...
Mao Zedong’s use of mass mediawas integral to his success. Almost immediately following the establishment of the Chinese Communist party Mao embarked on literacy campaigns, educational programs, and cultural projects throughout the entirety of China. Mandarin was proclaimed as the national spoken language and linguists were subsequently dispatched ...
Having grown up in Hunan, Mao spoke Mandarin with a marked Hunanese accent. Ross Terrill noted Mao was a "son of the soil ... rural and unsophisticated" in origins, while Clare Hollingworth asserted he was proud of his "peasant ways and manners," having a strong Hunanese accent and providing "earthy" comments on sexual matters.Lee Feigon noted that...
In the last years of his life, Mao was faced with declining health due to either Parkinson's disease or, according to his physician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as well as lung ailments due to smoking and heart trouble. Some also attributed Mao's decline in health to the betrayal of Lin Biao. Mao's last public appearance was on May 27, 1976, whe...
A highly controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history. Supporters regard him as a great leader and credit him with numerous accomplishments including modernizing China and building it into a world power, promoting the status of women, improving education and health care, providing universal ...
Mao was a prolific writer of political and philosophical literature. He is the attributed author of Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, known in the West as the "Little Red Book" and in Cultural Revolution China as the "Red Treasure Book" (红宝书): this is a collection of short extracts from his speeches and articles, edited by Lin Biaoand ordered ...
Mao has been portrayed in film and television numerous times. Some notable actors include: 1. Han Shi, the first actor ever to have portrayed Mao, in a 1978 drama Dielianhua and later again in a 1980 film Cross the Dadu River; 2. Gu Yue, who portrayed Mao 84 times on screen throughout his 27-year career and won the Best Actor title at the Hundred F...
Alexander, Robert J. International Maoism in the Developing World. Praeger, 1999. ISBN 978-0275961497Barme, Geremie. Shades of Mao: The Posthumous Cult of the Great Leader. Routledge, 1996, ISBN 978-1563246791Barnouin, Barbara, and Changgen Yu. Zhou Enlai: A Political Life. The Chinese University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-9629962807Becker, Jasper. Hungry Ghosts. Free Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0684834573Dec 9, 2021 · Best known for being the founding father of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Mao Zedong was a devout Communist and Marxist soldier and statesman who led the Communist Party to victory against the Nationalist Party to become the leader of his nation in 1949.
Jan 20, 2017 · Mao Zedong visited a farmer's family in Shaoshan, Hunan province, in June 1959. [Photo provided to China Daily] Tracing the history of the family, the book, which he took three years to complete, recounts the time in 1921 when Mao Zedong returned to his hometown Shaoshan, in Hunan, for a brief reunion with younger brothers Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan.
Jan 20, 2017 · As for Mao Zetan, the book tells how he joined the army and was killed in Jiangxi in 1935, at the age of 29. The book also dwells on how the three Mao brothers interacted at different stages of their lives, their marriages and their children, besides dealing with Mao Zedong's decisions when he was leading the Chinese to liberation.
