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Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was both a product and a part of the revolutionary change in 20th-century China. He was born December 26, 1893, in the small village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. Although he described his father as a "rich peasant," the family clearly had to work hard for a living. From an early age, Mao was a voracious reader.
Mao Zedong , or Mao Tse-tung , (born Dec. 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan province, China—died Sept. 9, 1976, Beijing), Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led China’s communist revolution and served as chairman of the People’s Republic of China (1949–59) and chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; 1931–76).
Mao Zedong - CCP Leader, Revolution, China: In September 1920 Mao became principal of the Lin Changsha primary school, and in October he organized a branch of the Socialist Youth League there. That winter he married Yang Kaihui, the daughter of his former ethics teacher. In July 1921 he attended the First Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, together with representatives from the other ...
May 15, 2009 · Mao Zedong (Dec. 26, 1893–Sept. 9, 1976), the father of modern China, is not only remembered for his impact on Chinese society and culture but for his global influence, including on political revolutionaries in the United States and the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s. He is widely considered one of the most prominent communist ...
May 30, 2019 · Mao Zedong was born in December 1893 in Hunan, a province in central China. In 1911, when he was just 18, the Qing dynasty, better known in the West as the Manchu, was overthrown. In 1912 a new government, the Republic of China, formed. An American-educated English-speaking doctor, Sun Yat-sen, who had converted to Christianity, became the ...
May 21, 2018 · Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) was born on December 26, 1893, in the small village of Shaoshan in Hunan, a province in central China that had remained isolated from the modern world. Although his parents, Mao Jenshen and Wen Qimei, were peasants, his family never lacked food or clothing.
Mao Zedong’s 22 years in the wilderness can be divided into four phases. The first of those is the initial three years when Mao and Zhu De , the commander in chief of the army, successfully developed the tactics of guerrilla warfare from base areas in the countryside.
