The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of teh People's Repbulic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply Mao.
(1893-1976). Paramount leader of the Chinese Communist Party for nearly four decades until his death in Oc-tober of 1976. Mao led the CCP to victory against the Guomindang in the Chinese civil war that culminated in the founding of the PRC in October 1949. In addition to his position as chairman of the CCP (which he held until his death), Mao also served as president of the PRC from 1949 until 1959.
Chairman of CCP 1935-1976. Head of State 949-1958. Architect of the Cultural Revolution.
Communist Chinese leader who helped establish the People's Republic of China in 1949; ruled China from 1949 - 1960 and from 1966 - 1976, lived 1893 - 1976.
Da Chairman. The "Great Helmsman". You probably know him as Mao Tse Tong under the old style of romanization which also rendered Beijing as Peking and Guangzhou as Canton.
Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
Maow Dzuh‑Dohng] (1893‑1976): Peasant from Hunan who became an early member of the CCP while working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao. Rose to party leadership by the 1930s, advocating that China's Marxist revolution would be won by the peasants, not by an urban proletariat. Led the CCP on the Long March and then to establish the People's Republic of China in 1949. Until his death in 1976 he was the paramount political leader and theorist of Chinese communism.
Communist leader in revolutionary China; advocated rural reform and role of peasantry in Nationalist revolution; influenced by Li Dazhao; led Communist reaction against Guomindang purges in 1920s, culminating in Long March of 1934; seized control of all of mainland China by 1949; initiated Great Leap Forward in 1958. (p. 1026)
(December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) (also Mao Tse-Tung in Wade-Giles transliteration) was a Chinese Marxist military and political leader and writer, who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, leading to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949 in Beijing.
