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Mao Zedong: Chairman Mao Zedong
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Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong or Mao Tse Tung) is the founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949 and one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921. He is recognized as one of the most prominent Communist theoreticians. He is ... known as a great poet. Here is a brief biography of Mao Zedong.
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Mao Zedong was chairman of the communist party of China between 1945-1976, responsible for the deaths of between 14 and 20 million people by starvation during the failed “Great Leap Forward”. Also known for his purges during the “Cultural Revolution”, which resulted in an unspecified number of millions dead. However did play a key role in the industrialization of China.
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Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China, was ... a calligrapher and a poet of extraordinary grace and eloquent simplicity. The poems in this beautiful edition (from the 1963 Beijing edition), translated and introduced by Willis Barnstone, are expressions of decades of struggle, the painful loss of his first wife, his hope for a new China, and his ultimate victory over the Nationalist forces. Willis Barnstone's introduction, his short biography of Mao and brief history of the revolution, and his notes on Chinese versification all combine to enrich the Western reader's understanding of Mao's poetry.
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Chairman Mao Zedong's 'Great Leap Forward' in the late 1950's helped to kill 20 million Chinese peasants in the famine that followed - equivalent to half the population of Spain. Part of his plan demanded that all the sparrows in China be exterminated to reduce crop losses. The results were catastrophic and not just for the sparrows. Truly, folly wreaks more havoc than malice.
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Chairman Mao Zedong ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976. He was ... the key founder of the People's Republic of China in 1949. Learn more about Chairman Mao - even read from his Red Book - through this collection of amazing online resources.
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The embalmed corpse of Mao Zedong, still a hallowed icon of Chinese communism, was back on public display in Beijing Tuesday after a long absence. . . In the spirit of China's new commercialism, dozens of souvenir stalls at the exit offered tourists an endless variety of Mao kitsch, from Mao lapel pins to packets of Chairman Mao Memorial Hall cigarettes
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