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When he yougth

China stood up

Mao Zedong declares the founding of the modern People's Republic of China, October 1, 1949

The People's Republic of China was established on October 1, 1949. It was the culmination of over two decades of civil and international wars. Mao famously announced: "We (the Chinese people) have stood up."

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Mao was born on December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan village, Hunan Province, China. His father, Mao Yichang, was an impoverished peasant who had become one of the wealthiest farmers in Shaoshan. Zedong described his father as a stern disciplinarian, who would beat him and his three siblings, the boys Zemin and Zetan, and an adopted girl, Zejian. Yichang's wife, Wen Qimei, was a devout Buddhist who tried to temper her husband's strict attitude.Zedong too became a Buddhist, but abandoned this faith in his mid-teenage years. Aged 8, Mao was sent to Shaoshan Primary School. Learning the value systems of Confucianism, he later admitted that he didn't enjoy the classical Chinese texts preaching Confucian morals, instead favouring popular novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin.Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to the 17-year-old Luo Yigu, uniting their land-owning families. Mao refused to recognise her as his wife, becoming a fierce critic of arranged marriage and temporarily moving away. Luo was locally disgraced and died in 1910.

Starting in 1951, Mao initiated two successive movements in an effort to rid urban areas of corruption by targeting wealthy capitalists and political opponents, known as the three-anti/five-anti campaigns. While the three-anti campaign was a focused purge of government, industrial and party officials, the five-anti campaign set its sights slightly broader, targeting capitalist elements in general.Workers denounced their bosses, spouses turned on their spouses, and children informed on their parents; the victims were often humiliated at struggle sessions, a method designed to intimidate and terrify people to the maximum. Mao insisted that minor offenders be criticised and reformed or sent to labour camps, "while the worst among them should be shot." These campaigns took several hundred thousand additional lives, the vast majority via suicide.

Mao's Doctor say

Li Zhisui, Mao's physician, suggested that Mao had initially seen the policy as a way of weakening those within his party who opposed him and was surprised by the extent of criticism and the fact that it began to be directed at his own leadership. It was only then that he used it as a method of identifying and subsequently persecuting those critical of his government. The Hundred Flowers movement led to the condemnation, silencing, and death of many citizens, also linked to Mao's Anti-Rightist Movement, with death tolls possibly in the millions

Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong, also transcribed as Mao Tse-tung About this sound listen (help·info), and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. His Marxist-Leninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Mao Zedong Thought.

Start up

At the Third Congress of the Communist Party in Shanghai in June 1923, the delegates reaffirmed their commitment to working with the KMT against the Beiyang government and imperialists. Supporting this position, Mao was elected to the Party Committee, taking up residence in Shanghai.

At the beginning

Anti-Japanese War and the Civil War

In 1937, China began the eight-year war, and the Kuomintang during the communist single-stop civil war, to join the anti-Japanese. Until 1945, signed an agreement with Japan, the war finished. In 1946, a second outbreak of the station in 1950, the Chinese Communist Party control of most parts of China, and the establishment of People's Republic of China, the ROC government and the KMT retreated to Taiwan in Beijing, the basic end of the War.

In 1911, Mao began middle school in Changsha. Revolutionary sentiment was strong in the city, with widespread animosity towards Emperor Puyi's absolute monarchy and many advocating republicanism. The republicans' figurehead was Sun Yat-sen, an American-educated Christian who led the Tongmenghui society. In Changsha, Mao was influenced by Sun's newspaper, The People's Independence (Minli bao),[and called for Sun to become president in a school essay. As a symbol of rebellion against the Manchu monarch, Mao and a friend cut off their queue pigtails, a sign of subservience to the emperor.Inspired by Sun's republicanism, the army rose up across southern China, sparking the Xinhai Revolution. Changsha's governor fled, leaving the city in republican control. Supporting the revolution, Mao joined the rebel army as a private soldier, but was not involved in fighting.

When Mao is young

The end of a great man

After 1971, Lin Biao incident, Mao's physical condition sharp recession, severe shock [68] in 1972. After that took place cataracts, blindness, restore half until after 1975 surgery. May 27, 1976, Mao Zedong met with Pakistani President's visit to China Ali Bhutto, it was his last public appearance before his death. July 1976 Tangshan earthquake, earthquake Mao Zedong personally look over reports on the situation, facing heavy losses crying, the CPC Central Committee "on the southern area of ​​Tangshan Feng relief briefing" (August 18) was Mao Zedong during his lifetime redlining the final document. After Mao Zedong's health further deteriorated, often in a coma. Ill hometown Shaoshan Mao Zedong want to go back "roots", but the Politburo did not agree to his request. Early September 1976, Mao Zedong was dying, after treatment failed, on at 0:10 on September 9 in Beijing Zhongnanhai 202 villas died at the age of 83.

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