Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. Mao was born in a farming community in Hunan Province, China to a peasant family. As a child, he worked in the fields and attended a local primary school where he studied traditional Confucian classics. He was frequently in conflict with his authoritarian father. He briefly served in the republican army while regularly studying alone in the provincial library. He established connection with intellectual radicals who later figured prominently in the Communist Party of China (CPC). He later returned to Hunan where he engaged in militant political activity, while living as a primary-school principal.
Mao became the CPC leader at the Hunan branch. He worked within the united front in Shanghai, Canton and Hunan focusing on labor organization, propaganda and the Peasant Movement Training Institute. In 1927, Chiang Kai-Shek purged all communists from the government. As a result, Mao was forced to flee and live in the mountains of South China and connecting with the guerrilla army. The fusion of communist leadership and the guerrilla force resulted to Mao being elected as the leader of the CPC. During the Japanese Invasion in China, the main political party, the Kuomintang and the communists were forced to form a united front. The Communists then gained a legitimacy as a national party, and Mao rose in stature as a national leader. Spurred on by the promise of a new future for China and himself, Mao reveled in the political and cultural change sweeping the country.
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Mao Tse-Tung Concepts/Ideas/Thoughts.
Mao Zedong Thought sums up the policies and ideas of the Communist Party of China (CPC), who led the mass revolution. They guided the mass in rising against the oppression of imperialism.
