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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led China from the PRC's establishment in October 1949 until his death in September 1976, primarily through his role as the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). His theories, which he advocated as a Chinese adaptation of Marxism–Leninism, are known as Mao Zedon…
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culture · Leader of China from 1949 to 1976 · politician · poet · writer · philosopher · librarian · strategist · political theorist · revolutionary · calligrapher · military theorist · also Mao Zedong, Mao Ze Dong, Maozedong, Tse Toung Mao, Mau Tzerdong, Máo Zédōng
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s own judgement, that his two major accomplishments were his victory over Chiang Kai-shek and the launching of the Cultural Revolution, offers a partial answer, though not quite in the sense he had intended. The one reunified China after a century of division and restored its sovereignty; the other gave the Chinese people such an overdose of ideological fervour as to immunise them for generations to come. Mao
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Facing up to China's Revolution
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2026· 17 entries
The Art Newspaper: Chinese artist Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison for satirical sculptures of Mao Zedong
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ArtReview: Artist Gao Zhen sentenced to three years in prison for works critical of Mao Zedong
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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts: Scholars and commentators in both the US and China are drawing comparisons between the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term and communist dictator Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. But some believe the way of Mao i
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International Business Times, Singapore Edition: Who Is Gao Zhen? Chinese Artist Jailed for Satirical Mao Zedong Sculptures
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que.es: Gao Zhen, artista condenado en China a tres años de cárcel por sus esculturas críticas con Mao Zedong
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Il Foglio: From Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping: a statue in Beijing is worth three years in prison
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
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Sportskeeda: HasanAbi accuses people of being Sinophobic for criticizing him for wearing Mao Zedong-inspired outfit
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Vandal: China se fijó en 2002 en una idea de Mao Zedong: 20 años después, su megaproyecto salva a 185 millones de personas
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“s own judgement, that his two major accomplishments were his victory over Chiang Kai-shek and the launching of the Cultural Revolution, offers a partial answer, though not quite in the sense he had intended. The one reunified China after a century of division and restored its sovereignty; the other gave the Chinese people such an overdose of ideological fervour as to immunise them for generations to come. Mao”
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knowyourmeme.com: Is Mao Zedong secretly the Mary Sue of China? | History Memes
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AS: China apeló a Mao Zedong para la gran sequía del país en 2002: tras dos décadas, su megaproyecto es un éxito p
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Mao Zedong - Cultural Revolution, China, Communism
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: How China Transformed Under Mao Zedong
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The National Interest: Zhou Enlai: Behind Mao Zedong’s Grand Vizier
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매일경제: In the 1910s, Mao Zedong played goalkeeper at Hunan Normal University. In 1956, when the People's Li..
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2025· 2 entries
The Guardian: What does China really think of Trump? That he and vengeful chairman Mao would have got on well | Tania Branigan
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The Guardian: Mao Zedong’s first Little Red Book had blue cover and less propaganda
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2023· 2 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Image shows South Korean opposition leader bowing to Mao Zedong bust” Altered image.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “South Korean children's choir performed song praising Mao Zedong” False.
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2022· 1 entry
AP News rated the claim “Video shows President Joe Biden wearing an outfit in the style of Communist authoritarian leader Mao Zedong to a diplomatic meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday.” False.
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2021· 2 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows Taliban negotiator crediting Mao Zedong book for victory” Satire.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Video shows former Chinese leader Mao Zedong exercising outdoors” 1.
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2020· 2 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo shows poster with Mao Zedong slogan advertising Hong Kong police” Misleading.
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Yahoo: Biden Quotes Mao Zedong to Explain Kamala Harris Pick
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2019· 2 entries
According to the CIS poll, in 2019 only 21% of Australian millennials were familiar with Mao Zedong.
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Only 21% of Australian millennials were familiar with Mao Zedong
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2018· 2 entries
Lead Stories rated the claim “China: Man faces execution after rubbing his penis on Mao Zedong's corpse” False.
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“Facing up to China's Revolution”
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2016· 2 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows Donald Trump's father posing with Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong.” False.
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A 2016 survey by YouGov survey found that 42% of American millennials have never heard of Mao.
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2015· 1 entry
Went viral, Bi garnered the support of Weibo users, with 80% of them saying in a poll that Bi should not apologize amidst backlash from state affiliates
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2005· 1 entry
“Gegen Maos fröhlichen Exterminismus erscheint Hitler wie ein rachitischer Briefträger." - Peter Sloterdijk, FOCUS 31/2005, Interview: "Die Freigabe aller Dinge", S. 54”
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1990· 1 entry
And 1993; Liu Ye, who played a young Mao in The Founding of a Party (2011); Tang Guoqiang, who has frequently portrayed Mao in more recent times, in the films The Long March (1996) and The Founding of a Republic (2009),
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1981· 1 entry
Officially declared the Cultural Revolution a "severe setback" for the PRC
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1976· 12 entries
Died 1976-09-09.
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“Jedną z gazet piszących o rewolucji była „Hsiang Chiang Jih-pao”. Na jej łamach debatowano o socjalizmie i tam po raz pierwszy zetknąłem się z tym terminem. O socjalizmie, a raczej o socjalreformizmie, dyskutowaliśmy także z innymi studentami i żołnierzami.”
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“Kobiety dźwigają połowę nieba.”
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“Nigdy nie zapominaj o walce klas.”
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Following Mao's death and the arrest of the Gang of Four
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“Istnieją tylko nieproduktywne myśli, a nie nieproduktywne tereny. Istnieją tylko złe metody uprawy ziemi, ale nie zła ziemia.”
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“Niech zakwitnie sto kwiatów, niech rywalizują ze sobą różne szkoły myślenia.”
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“We thank Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin for giving us a weapon. This weapon is not a machine-gun, but Marxism-Leninism.”
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“Cesarz Qin zakopał żywcem 460 uczonych, a myśmy zakopali 46 tysięcy. Czyż nie powstrzymaliśmy kontrrewolucjonistów i nie zabiliśmy trochę intelektualistów? Debatowaliśmy z demokratami, którzy oskarżają nas, że jesteśmy drugim Qin Shi Huangiem. Oni się mylą. Jesteśmy stukrotne więksi, niż Qin Shi Huang.”
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“Dla osiągnięcia celu politycznego można poświęcić w ofierze połowę ludzkości.”
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“Opis: opisując sytuację polityczną w Chinach po obaleniu monarchii cesarskiej”
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“Gdyby nie było wielkiego marszu, jak miałyby się szerokie masy dowiedzieć w tak krótkim czasie o istnieniu wielkiej prawdy, którą ucieleśniała Czerwona Armia?”
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1974· 1 entry
“Opis: dokonawszy przeglądu wad rewolucji kulturalnej w 1974.”
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1969· 1 entry
Mao declared the Cultural Revolution to be over
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1968· 1 entry
“A New Storm Against Imperialism”
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1967· 4 entries
“Die Armee muss mit dem Volk zu einem Ganzen verschmelzen, so dass sie vom Volk als seine Armee angesehen wird. Eine solche Armee wird unbesiegbar sein." - Worte des Vorsitzenden Mao Tsetung, Peking 1967, S.182; Über den langwierigen Krieg, Mai 1938; Ausgewählte Werke Mao Tse-tungs, Bd. II”
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“Original: 凡是敵人反對的，我們就要擁護；凡是敵人擁護的，我們就要反對。- Worte des Vorsitzenden Mao Tsetung, Peking 1967, S.19; Gespräch mit drei Korrespondenten der Zentralen Nachrichtenagentur und der Zeitung Saodang Bao und Hsinmin-Bao, 16. September 1939; Ausgewählte Werke Mao Tse-tungs, Bd. II”
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“Jeder Kommunist muss diese Wahrheit begreifen: 'Die politische Macht kommt aus den Gewehrläufen.' " - Worte des Vorsitzenden Mao Tsetung, Peking 1967, S.74; Probleme des Krieges und der Strategie, 6. November 1938; Ausgewählte Werke Mao Tse-tungs, Bd. II”
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“Die Kommunisten müssen auch beim Lernen ein Vorbild sein: Sie sollten zu jeder Zeit sowohl die Lehrer der Massen als auch ihre Schüler sein." - Worte des Vorsitzenden Mao Tsetung, Peking 1967, S.321; Der Platz der Kommunistischen Partei Chinas im nationalen Krieg, Oktober 1938; Ausgewählte Werke Mao Tse-tungs, Bd. II”
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1966· 6 entries
In October 1966, Mao's Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, known as the Little Red Book, was published.
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Mao launched the Cultural Revolution, which was marked by violent class struggle, destruction of historical artifacts, and Mao's cult of personality
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“Opis: według relacji belgijskiego komunisty 18 sierpnia 1966 podczas ogromnego wiecu hunwejbinów na Placu Niebiańskiego Spokoju Mao oddalał się co pewien czas, aby zdjąć kurtkę i wytrzeć pot na piersi i pod pachami, komentując tę czynność powyższymi słowami.”
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“Erste Miniatur-Ausgabe, Verlag für fremdsprachige Literatur, Peking 1966, infopartisan.net”
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But accelerated again after the Sino-Soviet border conflict at Zhenbao Island, which increased the perceived risk of a Soviet invasion
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Would still have been a great man but flawed
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1965· 1 entry
Attributing Mao's errors to individualist tendencies which arose when he departed from the collective view of the leadership
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1964· 1 entry
“s interior. Although other key leaders did not initially support the idea, the 2 August 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident increased fears of a potential invasion by the United States and crystallized support for Mao”
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1962· 2 entries
In 1962, Mao proposed the Socialist Education Movement (SEM) in an attempt to educate the peasants to resist the "temptations" of feudalism and the sprouts of capitalism that he saw re-emerging in the countryside from Liu's economic reforms.
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Mao proposed the Socialist Education Movement (SEM) in an attempt to educate the peasants to resist the "temptations" of feudalism and the sprouts of capitalism that he saw re-emerging in the countryside from Liu's econo
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1959· 4 entries
“Opis: wystąpienie pod koniec lipca 1959 w kwestii niepokojów społecznych związanych z kryzysem ekonomicznym.”
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“Opis: wypowiedziane podczas konferencji partyjnej w Zhengzhou w lutym 1959.”
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Followed by a further 10% decline in 1960 and no recovery in 1961
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“Opis: przyznając się w gronie Biura Politycznego do klęski Wielkiego Skoku w 1959.”
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1958· 1 entry
At the 1958 party congress in Chengdu, Mao expressed support for the personality cults of people whom he labelled as genuinely worthy figures, not those that expressed "blind worship".
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1956· 6 entries
“poisonous ideological survivals of the old society”
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In 1956, as a response to the Khrushchev Report that criticised Joseph Stalin, Mao stated that personality cults are "poisonous ideological survivals of the old society", and reaffirmed China's commitment to collective leadership.
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Career landmark: member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1956–1976).
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“Opis: przemawiając w 1956 na posiedzeniu Biura Politycznego.”
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His achievements would have been immortal
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As a response to the Khrushchev Report that criticised Joseph Stalin, Mao stated that personality cults are "poisonous ideological survivals of the old society", and reaffirmed China's commitment to collective leadership
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1954· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the People's Republic of China (1954–1959).
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1951· 1 entry
Mao initiated movements to rid urban areas of corruption; the Three-anti and Five-anti Campaigns
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1950· 1 entry
Just like Che Guevara's image, his has become a symbol of revolutionary culture." Since 1950, over 40 million people have visited Mao's birthplace in Shaoshan, Hunan.
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1949· 1 entry
Career landmark: Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (1949–1954).
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1948· 1 entry
The People's Liberation Army starved out the Kuomintang forces occupying Changchun
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1945· 3 entries
Career landmark: Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (1945–1976).
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Career landmark: Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese Communist Party (1945–1976).
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“... senza gli sforzi del Partito comunista cinese, senza i comunisti cinesi, spina dorsale del popolo cinese, sarebbe stato impossibile realizzare l'indipendenza e la liberazione della Cina, come sarebbe stato impossibile l'industrializzazione in Cina e la riorganizzazione dell'agricoltura su basi nuove. (24 aprile 1945; p. 7)”
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1937· 1 entry
But the civil war resumed after Japan's surrender in 1945
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1936· 1 entry
That he had started the study of the Confucian Analects and the Four Books at a village school when he was eight, but that the books he most enjoyed reading were Water Margin, Journey to the West, the Romance of the Thre
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1935· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1935–1945).
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Mao became leader of the CCP during the Long March, a military retreat to the Yan'an Soviet in Shaanxi
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1931· 1 entry
To Pei Minglun, the son of a Shanghainese businessman, was short-lived
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1928· 2 entries
Mao met and married He Zizhen, an 18-year-old revolutionary with whom he would go on to have six children
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When he and his forces had retreated to Jinggangshan, and the two began a relationship
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1918· 1 entry
Studied at Hunan First Normal University (1913–1918).
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1915· 2 entries
Mao was elected secretary of the Students' Society
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The complicity of Duan Qirui's Beiyang government, and the betrayal of China in the Treaty of Versailles, wherein Japan was allowed to receive territories in Shandong which had been surrendered by Germany
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1912· 1 entry
Studied at The First High School of Changsha, Hunan (1912–1912).
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1911· 2 entries
Studied at Dongshan Senior High School (1910–1911).
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Studied at Xiangxiang First Senior High School (1911–1911).
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1893· 1 entry
Born 1893-12-26.
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