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[] [] Mao Zedong


 * December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976
 * born in Shaoshan, a Hunan province China
 * son of a peasant farmer
 * married Yang Kaihui
 * his brand of Communist policies are now known as Maoism
 * promoted guerrilla warfare
 * even today he is held in high regard in China as a great revolutionary, political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation



​ Mao was born on December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, [|Hunan province China]. At age 8, he began studying at the village primary school, but left school at 13 to work on the family farm. When the Xinhai Revolution against the Qing Dynasty broke out in 1911 he joined the Revolutionary Army in Hunan. Mao left the army. He eventually returned to school, and in 1918 graduated from the First Provincial Normal School of Hunan. Mao worked as an assistant librarian at the University Library under the curatorship of Li Dazhao, who would come to greatly influence Mao's future thought. Mao registered as a part-time student at Beijing University and attended a few lectures and seminars by intellectuals, such as ChenDuixiu, Hu Shi, and Qian Xuantong. During his stay in Shanghai, he engaged himself as much as possible in reading which introduced him to Communist theories. He married, Yang Kaihui, Professor Yang's daughter and a fellow student, despite an existing marriage with Luo Yixiu arranged by his father at home, which Mao never acknowledged. In October 1930, the Kuomintang (KMT) captured Yang Kaihui as well as her son, Anying. The KMT imprisoned them both, and Anying was later sent to his relatives after the KMT killed his mother. On July 23, 1921, Mao, age 27, attended the first session of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai. Two years later, he was elected as one of the five commissars of the Central Committee of the Party during the third Congress session.In 1924, he became an Executive of the Shanghai branch of the Kuomintang and Secretary of the Organization Department.Mao remained in Shanghai, an important city that the CPC emphasized for the Revolution. The Party had become poor, and Mao became disillusioned with the revolution and moved back to Shaoshan. In early 1927, Mao returned to Hunan. In 1954 Mao became Chairman of the PRC(President of the People's Republic of China).
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