Hua Guofeng. Chairman of the Central Politburo of the Communist Party of China. In office. March 2. September 2. 8, 1. Preceded by. Zhang Wentian as General Secretary of the Central CommitteeSucceeded by. Download Film The Dreams Of Jinsha ' title='Download Film The Dreams Of Jinsha ' />Himself as Chairman of the Central CommitteeChairman of the Central Peoples Government. In office. October 1, 1. September 2. 7, 1. Premier. Zhou Enlai. Preceded by. Position established. Succeeded by. Chairman of the Peoples Republic of China. Chairman of the Peoples Republic of China. In office. September 2. April 2. 7, 1. 95. Premier. Zhou Enlai. Deputy. Zhu De. Preceded by. Chairman of the Central Peoples Government. Succeeded by. Liu Shaoqi. Personal details. Born1. 89. 3 1. December 2. Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Empire. Died. September 9, 1. Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. Resting place. Chairman Mao Memorial Hall, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China. Political party. Communist Party of China. Other politicalaffiliations. Kuomintang 1. 92. SpousesLuo Yixiu 1. Yang Kaihui 1. 92. He Zizhen 1. 93. Jiang Qing 1. Children. 10. Alma mater. Hunan First Normal University. Signature. Central institution membership. Member, National Peoples Congress. Member, National Peoples Congress. Member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 1. Politburo. 19. 381. Member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 1. Central Committee. Paramount Leader ofthe Peoples Republic of China. Mao Zedong or Mao Tse Tung listen December 2. September 9, 1. 97. Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the Peoples Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1. His MarxistLeninist theories, military strategies and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or MarxismLeninismMaoism. Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a Chinese nationalist and anti imperialist outlook in early life, particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1. May Fourth Movement of 1. Mao adopted MarxismLeninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China CPC, leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1. During the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang KMT and the CPC, Mao helped to found the Chinese Workers and Peasants Red Army, led the Jiangxi Soviets radical land policies and ultimately became head of the CPC during the Long March. Although the CPC temporarily allied with the KMT under the United Front during the Second Sino Japanese War 1. Japans defeat Chinas civil war resumed and in 1. Maos forces defeated the Nationalists who withdrew to Taiwan. On October 1, 1. 94. Mao proclaimed the foundation of the Peoples Republic of China PRC, a single party state controlled by the CPC. In the following years Mao solidified his control through land reforms and through a psychological victory in the Korean War, and through campaigns against landlords, people he termed counter revolutionaries, and other perceived enemies of the state. In 1. 95. 7 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform Chinas economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one. This campaign led to the deadliest famine in history and the deaths of more than 1. In 1. 96. 6, he initiated the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a program to remove counter revolutionary elements of Chinese society that lasted 1. Maos personality cult and which is officially regarded as a severe setback for the PRC. Youth and the Xinhai Revolution 1. Mao was born on December 2. Shaoshan village, Hunan Province, China. His father, Mao Yichang, was a formerly impoverished peasant who had become one of the wealthiest farmers in Shaoshan. Growing up in rural Hunan, Mao described his father as a stern disciplinarian, who would beat him and his three siblings, the boys Zemin and Zetan, as well as an adopted girl, Zejian. Maos mother, Wen Qimei, was a devout Buddhist who tried to temper her husbands strict attitude. Mao too became a Buddhist, but abandoned this faith in his mid teenage years. At age 8, Mao was sent to Shaoshan Primary School. Learning the value systems of Confucianism, he later admitted that he didnt enjoy the classical Chinese texts preaching Confucian morals, instead favouring popular novels like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. At age 1. 3, Mao finished primary education, and his father united him in an arranged marriage to the 1. Luo Yigu, thereby 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 1. While working on his fathers farm, Mao read voraciously1. Zheng Guanyings booklet which lamented the deterioration of Chinese power and argued for the adoption of representative democracy. Interested in history, Mao was inspired by the military prowess and nationalistic fervour of George Washington and Napoleon Bonaparte. His political views were shaped by Gelaohui led protests which erupted following a famine in Hunanese capital Changsha Mao supported the protesters demands, but the armed forces suppressed the dissenters and executed their leaders. The famine spread to Shaoshan, where starving peasants seized his fathers grain. He disapproved of their actions as morally wrong, but claimed sympathy for their situation. At age 1. 6, Mao moved to a higher primary school in nearby Dongshan,1. In 1. 91. 1, Mao began middle school in Changsha. Watch Get Squirrely The Movie Full Version more. Revolutionary sentiment was strong in the city, where there was widespread animosity towards Emperor Puyis absolute monarchy and many were advocating republicanism. The republicans figurehead was Sun Yat sen, an American educated Christian who led the Tongmenghui society. In Changsha, Mao was influenced by Suns newspaper, The Peoples Independence Minli bao,2. 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 Suns republicanism, the army rose up across southern China, sparking the Xinhai Revolution. Changshas 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. The northern provinces remained loyal to the emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sunproclaimed provisional president by his supporterscompromised with the monarchist general Yuan Shikai. The monarchy would be abolished, creating the Republic of China, but the monarchist Yuan would become president.