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Mao Zeong pronunciation (help·info) (Simplified Chinese: 毛泽东; Traditional Chinese: 毛澤東; Pinyin: Máo Zédōng; Wade-Giles: Mao Tse-tung); December 26, 1893–September 9, 1976 was a Chinese military and political leader who led the Communist Party of China (CPC) to victory against the Kuomintang (KMT) in the Chinese Civil War, and was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Trivia about mao

  • He went to Peking University, where he met Li Dazhao & Chen Duxiu, later co-founders of the Chinese Communist Party
  • China's 100-yuan banknote shows this guy's head in red
  • His second name is Zedong in the Pinyin Romanization System, Tse-tung according to the older Wade-Giles
  • Later to help start the Chinese Communist Party, he once worked as a library assistant at Peking University
  • Yang Kaihui, the first wife of this leader of China, was executed by Chinese Nationalists in 1930
  • On Oct. 1, 1949 he said, "Today, our China enters into the family of nations who love peace and freedom"
  • With an e-reader edition of his "Little Bed Book", you can take this chairman's quotes everywhere with you
  • The "Little Red Book" of 1964 was filled with "Quotations from" this man
  • This leader launched his Cultural Revolution
  • In November, an Andy Warhol work depicting this Asian leader sold for more than $17 million
  • In 1958 he launched his Great Leap Forward program; it was a great disaster
  • In 1959 he gave up his title as Chairman of the People's Republic of China (officially)

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