Mao Zedong was born in 1893
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Mao Zedong was born December 26, 1893 in Shaoshan, Hunan province of China. He passed September 9, 1976 in Beijing.
He was the principal Chinese Marxist, soldier, and statesman and led his country’s communist revolution.
Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 until his death. He was chairman (chief of state) of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1959. He remained chairman of the party until his death.
When China emerged from a half century of revolution as the world’s most populous country and launched itself on a path of economic development and social change.
Mao Zedong occupied a critical place in the country’s resurgence though he did not play a dominant role throughout the whole struggle.
In the early years of the CCP, he was a secondary figure and even after the 1940s the crucial decisions were not his alone.
He was instrumental in orchestrating the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
From the foundation of the CCP in 1921 to Mao’s death in 1976, one can fairly regard Mao Zedong as the principal architect that which China became on it's way to that new thing called "The Peoples Republic of China".
See Also:
The Maoist Gang of Four