Mao Zedong

bad: The infamous leader that I choose to talk about this week is Mao Zedong was at the head of a Communist government in China during the year 1949 when it finally forced the Nationalists to retreat to Taiwan. By Exploiting the immense number of peasants in poverty, Mao ordered that in every village, at least one landlord was to be executed as an example and that all the property was to be equally redistributed. While Mao Zedong campaign to redistribute the property taken from landlords that…

Mao Zedong had trouble gaining power and rising through the ranks of the Communist Party in the early nineteen thirties. With Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist army closing in on the Communist forces, the Chinese Communist Party was in need of a new leader. The Long March was the event that made Mao Zedong the clear leader of the Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th,…

INTRODUCTION Maoism is a political theory formulated by Mao Zedong (1893 - 1976), the Chinese political leader. It was the guiding political and military ideology of the communist party of China (CPC). Rooted in anti-imperialistic struggle, it supported armed revolution in order to achieve political transformation. It aimed at establishing a classless society through armed revolution and envisaged the agrarian peasantry as the key revolutionary force. Mao dreamt of transforming the capitalist…

the people. But after 1976 the new challenge for Chinese leaders was to leave a footprint in the country’s history during one or two mandates. It is considered difficult for succeeding leaders to have the same cultural and political influence of Mao Zedong, and the new challenge for the elites of the Chinese Communist Party was in fact to leave a clear footprint in history during only one or two mandates as General Secretary. Thanks to this situation anyway every leader, from Deng to Xi Jinping,…

To this day, Mao Zedong remains the most potent figure in the public imagination of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ideological progenitor of Chinese socialism, a commander in the war of resistance against Japan, the revolutionary leader of the People’s Republic of China, and its longest serving leader. Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China…

Mao Zedong subscribed to the “Great Man” theory of history, a school that downplays the trends and forces that shape the world over time in favor of single actors that forcefully bring about punctuated changes. Counter to the rhetoric of the CCP, which touted collectivist uplift through cooperation, Mao’s scholarship led him to appraise the efforts of emperors and tyrants not by their atrocities, but in spite of them, choosing instead to praise their overarching designs to build strong empires.…

Mao Tse-Tung, also known as Mao Zedong, was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist and the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its inception as China’s governing regime in 1949 until his death in 1976. Economically, Tse-Tung is known for his introduction of multiple famous economic policies and five year plans, including the first Five Year Plan of 1953 and the subsequent Great Leap Forward, credited as responsible for completely redefining and modernizing the Chinese economy. In addition…

After World War II, the world became split between communist and noncommunist countries as the Cold War begins. China was a major world power developing under communist rule other than Russia. Here, Mao Zedong was the one who introduced the People's Republic of China; hence, it is known as the Mao Era (1949–76). As a result, means of production were nationalized and all industry was no longer private. Many were moved to camps within the Laogai camp system - the most extensive labor camp system…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution was led by a communist leader by the name of Mao Zedong. This movement took place in the 21th century, precisely in 1966, in China. It was believed that China’s development shaped the world we live in today. China was, and still is one of the greatest countries in the world. China has always been a powerful country. In previous centuries, it was part of the dominant superpowers. This country is still influential today. “Guerilla movements in Asia, Africa, and the…

How Chinese Culture is Shaped by Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward Through the passage of time, China, one of the four earliest civilizations on earth, has been through many different changes in its 5000 years of recorded history. China started out as numerous nomadic tribes who merged to become the seven small kingdoms that battled each other for the control of China, then Qin Shi Huang united China and imposed a uniform currency, scale and language. 19 dynasties followed Qin, each met…