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Mao Zemin. Mao Zetan. Mao Zejian (adopted) Mao Yichang or Mao Rensheng [a] (15 October 1870 – 23 January 1920) was a Chinese farmer and grain merchant who achieved notability as the father of Mao Zedong. The nineteenth generation of the Mao clan, he was born and lived his life in the rural village of Shaoshanchong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.
Jan 18, 2019 · A man arranges his collections of Chairman Mao’s “Little Red Book” at a “red museum” he built on the second floor of his home in Yichang, Hubei Province, China. The iconic “Little Red Book” contained quotes from Mao. A new “Little Yellow Book” has done the same thing with quotes from China’s President Xi Jinping.
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172 Copy quote. Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy. Mao Zedong. Love, Crush, Chinese Revolution. Zedong Mao (2007). “On Practice and Contradiction”, Verso Books. 71 Copy quote. All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Mao Zedong. "One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes". Mao Zedong. "The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you". Mao Zedong.
- Early Life
- Education and Introduction to Marxism
- Gathering Power
- The Chinese Civil War
- The Long March and Japanese Occupation
- Civil War Resumes and The Founding of The PRC
- Five Year Plan and The Great Leap Forward
- Foreign Policies
- Fall from Grace
- The Cultural Revolution
On Dec. 26, 1893, a son was born to the Mao family, wealthy farmers in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China. They named the boy Mao Zedong. The child studied Confucian classics at the village school for five years but left at the age of 13 to help out full-time on the farm. Rebellious and probably spoiled, young Mao had been expelled from several school...
Mao moved to Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, to continue his education. He spent six months in 1911 and 1912 as a soldier in the barracks at Changsha, during the revolution that overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Mao called for Sun Yatsen to be president and cut off his long braid of hair (queue), a sign of anti-Manchu revolt. Between 1913 and 19...
In 1920 Mao married Yang Kaihui, the daughter of his professor, despite his earlier marriage. He read a translation of The Communist Manifestothat year and became a committed Marxist. Six years later, the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang,under Chiang Kai-shek massacred at least 5,000 communists in Shanghai. This was the start of China's Civil War. ...
A local warlord in Changsha captured Mao's wife, Yang Kaihui, and one of their sons in October 1930. She refused to denounce communism, so the warlord had her beheaded in front of her 8-year-old son. Mao had married a third wife, He Zizhen, in May of that year. In 1931, Mao was elected chairman of the Soviet Republic of China, in Jiangxi Province. ...
About 85,000 Red Army troops and followers retreated from Jiangxi and started walking the 6,000-kilometer arc to the northern province of Shaanxi. Beset by freezing weather, dangerous mountain paths, unbridged rivers, and attacks by warlords and the KMT, only 7,000 of the communists made it to Shaanxi in 1936. This Long March cemented Mao Zedong's ...
Even as he led the fight against the Japanese, Mao was planning to seize power from his erstwhile allies, the KMT. Mao codified his ideas in a number of pamphlets, including On Guerrilla Warfare and On Protracted War. In 1944, the United States sent the Dixie Mission to meet Mao and the communists; the Americans found the communists better organize...
From his new home next to the Forbidden City, Mao directed radical reforms in China. Landlords were executed, perhaps as many as 2-5 million across the country, and their land was redistributed to poor peasants. Mao's "Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries" claimed at least 800,000 additional lives, mostly former KMT members, intellectuals, a...
Shortly after Mao took power in China, he sent the "People's Volunteer Army" into the Korean War to fight alongside the North Koreans against the South Koreans and United Nations forces. The PVA saved Kim Il-Sung'sarmy from being overrun, resulting in a stalemate that continues to this day. In 1951, Mao also sent the PLA into Tibet to "liberate" it...
In January 1962, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a "Conference of the Seven Thousand" in Beijing. Conference chair Liu Shaoqi harshly criticized the Great Leap Forward, and by implication, Mao Zedong. Mao was pushed aside within the internal power structure of the CCP; moderate pragmatists Liu and Deng Xiaoping freed the peasants from commun...
In August 1966, the 73-year-old Mao made a speech at the Plenum of the Communist Central Committee. He called for the youth of the country to take back the revolution from the rightists. These young "Red Guards" would do the dirty work in Mao's Cultural Revolution, destroying the "Four Olds"—old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Even...
Mao was born on December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan village, Shaoshan, Hunan. His father, Mao Yichang, was an impoverished peasant who had become one of the wealthiest farmers in Shaoshan. Zedong described his father as a stern disciplinarian, who would beat him and his three siblings, the boys Zemin and Zetan, and an adopted girl, Zejian Yichang's ...
Like. “An army of the people is invincible!”. ― Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. tags: chinese , commie , communism , mao , people , prolitariat , red-army , revolution , soviet. 64 likes. Like. “The struggle of the Black people in the United States for emancipation is a component part of the general struggle of al the ...
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