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Chairman Mao Zedong 毛泽东 | |
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 Portrait of comrade Mao | |
| Born | December 26, 1893 Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing dynasty |
| Died | September 9, 1976 (aged 82) Beijing, People's Republic of China |
| Cause of death | Heart attack associated with old age |
| Nationality | Chinese |
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Mao Zedong (December 26th, 1893 — September 9th, 1976) was a Chinese Marxist-Leninist revolutionary who lead the Chinese people to their proletarian revolution and served as the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. Under Mao's rule, China's life expectancy increased from 35 to 65 years and industrial production increased by an average of 11% annually.[1] Per capita food production increased by 60% and total food production increased by over 169%.[2]
Comrade Mao's contributions to the development of Marxism-Leninism, military theory, and the theory of communist party organization are known in China as Mao Zedong Thought. Mao Zedong was also a poet and calligrapher.
Early life
Mao began studying Marxism in 1919 when it spread to his hometown of Hunan. In 1921, he left for Shanghai to attend the First National Congress of the CPC.[3]
Library works
The following are works by Mao in ProleWiki's own Library.
References
- ↑ M. Meissner (1996). The Deng Xiaoping Era. An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994. Hill and Way.
- ↑ Guo Shutian (2004). Can China Feed Itself? Chinese Scholars on China’s Food Issue: 'China’s Food Supply and Demand Situation and International Trade'. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press.
- ↑ Wang Mengjie, Geng Zhibin (2018-07-01). "Mao Zedong: Leader of the Communist Party of China" CGTN. Retrieved 2022-06-24.