Mao Zedong
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Mao ZEDONG
BY HEIDI LIAO
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- Mao Zedong (1893.12.26.－1976.9.9) , Xiangtan,Hunan.
- Poet
- The great Marxist
- Leader of the main founders
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life
- He had one daughter and three sons.
- Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan.
- Particularly influenced by the events of the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 and May Fourth Movement of 1919. Mao converted to Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
- He led the new-democratic revolution victory.
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events
- On October 1, 1949, Mao proclaimed the foundation of the People's Republic of China (PRC), a one-party state controlled by the CPC.
- In 1957 he launched a campaign known as the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China's economy from an agrarian economy to an industrial one.
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- Mao suffered a series of heart attacks in 1976, dying in that September, aged 82. He was succeeded as Paramount Leader by Hua Guofeng (1976–1978), who was quickly sidelined and replaced
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