Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong; pronounced ; traditionally romanised as Mao Tse-tung. }} (26December 18939September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 and led the country from its establishment until his death in 1976. Mao served as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1943 until his death, and as the party's ''de facto'' leader from 1935. His theories, which he advocated as a Chinese adaptation of Marxism–Leninism, are known as Maoism.Born to a peasant family in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao studied in Changsha and was influenced by the 1911 Revolution and ideas of Chinese nationalism and anti-imperialism. He was introduced to Marxism while working as a librarian at Peking University, and later participated in the May Fourth Movement of 1919. In 1921, Mao became a founding member of the CCP. After the start of the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang (KMT) and CCP, Mao led the failed Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan in 1927, and in 1931 founded the Jiangxi Soviet. He helped build the Chinese Red Army, and developed a strategy of guerilla warfare. In 1935, Mao became leader of the CCP during the Long March, a military retreat to the Yan'an Soviet in Shaanxi, where the party began rebuilding its forces. The CCP allied with the KMT in the Second United Front at the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, but the civil war resumed after Japan's surrender in 1945. In 1949, Mao's forces defeated the Nationalist government, which withdrew to Taiwan.
On 1 October 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the PRC, a one-party state controlled by the CCP. He initiated land redistribution and industrialisation campaigns, suppressed political opponents, intervened in the Korean War, and oversaw the ideological Hundred Flowers and Anti-Rightist Campaigns. From 1958 to 1962, Mao oversaw the Great Leap Forward, a campaign which aimed to rapidly collectivise agriculture and industrialise the country. It failed, and resulted in the Great Chinese Famine. In 1966, Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, which was marked by violent class struggle, destruction of historical artifacts, and Mao's cult of personality. From the late 1950s, Mao's foreign policy was dominated by a political split with the Soviet Union, and in the 1970s he began establishing relations with the United States. In 1976, Mao died of a heart attack. He was initially succeeded by Hua Guofeng, then in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping. The CCP's official evaluation of Mao's legacy both praises him and acknowledges mistakes in his later years.
Mao's policies resulted in a vast number of deaths, with tens of millions of victims of famine, political persecution, prison labour and executions, and his regime has been described as totalitarian. Mao has also been credited with transforming China from a semi-colony to a major world power and advancing literacy, women's rights, basic healthcare, education, and life expectancy. In modern China, he is widely regarded as a national hero who liberated the country from imperialism. He became an ideological leader within the international communist movement, inspiring various Maoist organisations. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1955Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1955.118 p. illus. 19 cm. -
4Kang Ri you ji zhan zheng de yi ban wen ti抗日游撃戰爭的一般問題by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1939[China] : Xin hua ri bao guan, Minguo 28 [1939]50 p. -
5by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1954Peking, Foreign Languages Press, 1954.56 pages illustrations 19 cm. -
6Lun xin jie duan論新階段by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1948Xianggang : Xin min zhu chu ban she, 1948.93 p. -
7Kang Ri xin zhan shu抗日新戰术by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1940[China] : Xin shi dai chu ban she, 194-?81 p. -
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9Xin min zhu zhu yi de xian zheng : Mao Zedong tong zhi yi jiu si ling nian er yue er shi ri zai Yan'an ge jie xian zheng cu jin hui cheng li da hui de yan ci新民主主義的憲政 毛澤東同志一九四零年二月二十日在延安各界憲政促進會成立大會的演詞[China : s.n., 19--?]7 p.
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10Zhongguo kang Ri min zu tong yi zhan xian zai mu qian jie duan de ren wu : si yue shi ri zai Yan'an gong chan dang huo dong fen zi hui bao gao ti gang中國抗日民族統一戰線在目前階段的任務 四月十日在延安共產黨活動分子會報告提綱 /[China : s.n., 19--?]14 p.
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12Mao Zedong xuan ji毛澤東選集.by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1945[China] : Su zhong chu ban she, 1945.91 p. -
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Published 1945Sanfanshi : He zuo chu ban she, 1945.56 p. : port. ; 21 cm. -
15Tong yi zhan xian xia dang pai wen ti統一战线下党派问题by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1940[China : s.n., 194-?]10 p. -
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Published 1949Hsiang-kiang : Zi you chu ban she, 1949.4, 49 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. -
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18Kang Ri xin zhan shu : kang Ri ming jiang zhan chang shi yan抗日新戰術 抗日名將戰場實驗 /by Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976
Published 1938[China] : Xin shi dai chu ban she, 1938.70 p. -
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Published 1946Jiujinshan : He zuo chu ban she, min guo 35 [1946]2, 2, 63 p. ; 22 cm.