Mao Zedong[a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Aug 9, 2023 · Mao Tse-tung (also spelled Zedong) was the principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nation's Cultural Revolution.

May 23, 2024 · Mao Tse-tung, alternately spelled Mao Zedung, was born in Hunan Province in South China on 26 December 1893. He is regarded as one of the leading communists of the last century. His theories on communism, warfare and revolution have been extremely influential.

Mao Zedung was born to a farming family in the Hunan Province in 1893. After witnessing the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of China's awakening nationalism, he served briefly in the Hunan Republican Army.

Feb 12, 2025 · Mao Zedong was a Marxist theorist, revolutionary, and, from 1949 to 1959, the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the 20th century, in China and abroad.

Aug 26, 2019 · So, we can thank the Mao ‘Tse-tung’ of the late ’50s (and Zhou Youguang) for implementing pinyin across China – and subsequently around the world – allowing locals and foreigners alike to better understand the language that dominates the People’s Republic today.

Mao Tse-tung: Ruler of Red China is a book written by Robert Payne and published by Henry Schuman, New York in 1950, shortly after Mao Zedong (here his name is transliterated as Mao Tse-tung) came to power. [1]

HONG KONG, Sept. 9--Mao Tse-tung, who began as an obscure peasant, died one of history's great revolutionary figures. Born at a time when China was wracked by civil strife, beset with terrible...

Read a biography about the life of Mao Zedong the Chinese communist leader responsible for the disastrous policies including the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution'.

Mao Tse Tung was the principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his country’s communist revolution. Mao Zedong was the director of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935.