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Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshan, Hunan, China, on December 26, 1893. Mao had two younger brothers and one younger sister. His father, Mao Jensheng, had started out as a poor peasant but eventually paid off his debts, became a landowner, and started a business trading rice. A devoted follower of the religion of Buddhism, his mother, Wen Ch'i-mei, wanted her son to have a religious career. Mao did not venture outside his home province (state) until he was twenty-five. Up to then, his formal education was limited to six years at a junior normal school where he acquired a limited knowledge of science, learned almost no foreign language, but developed a clear written style and a considerable understanding of social problems, Chinese history, and current affairs.
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Mao Zedong was born on Dec.26, 1893, into a well-to-do peasant family in Shao-shan, Hunan province. As a child he was smart, and often argued down adults. When he was six years old his father sent him to work in the fields. In contrast to his gentle Buddhist mother, his father was strict and hard. Mao was frequently in conflict with him. Mao's diligence and absorption in work might be a result of these early impressions of his father.
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The nationalists now imposed a blockade and Mao Zedong decided to evacuate the area and establish a new stronghold in the north-west of China. In October 1934 Mao, Lin Biao, Zhu De, and some 100,000 men and their dependents headed west through mountainous areas.
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