Born in shaoshanchong, shaoshan in hunan province, mao grew up as the son of mao yichang, a wealthy farmer and landowner. Mao zedong in contemporarychinese official discourse andhistory. Born a peasant, mao tsetung became one of the most powerful men in the world. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read mao zedong.
Pdf the political leadership of mao zedong researchgate. Mao zedong was born on december 26, 1893, in hunan proviince of china, to mao yichang and wen qimei. Jul 24, 2019 mao tsetung was the principal chinese marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nations cultural revolution. The new yorker the task of bringing mao to a large, nonspecialist audience is one for which spence is eminently wellsuited. Jonathan spences biography of mao is concise yet revealing and detailed at the same time. Jonathan spences mao zedong is an effective biography that covers much content in few pages. Download the private life of chairman mao pdf ebook free. May 19, 2015 mao zedong, also transliterated as mao tsetung and commonly referred to as chairman mao december 26, 1893 september 9, 1976, was a chinese communist revolutionary and the founding father of.
Chinese and world history are what makes mao possible. Click download or read online button to get mao zedong and chinas revolution ebook pdf book now. Considered a revolutionary theorist, a strong political leader and a powerful statesman, zedong was also principally responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of his own countrymen. Aug 29, 2006 from humble origins in the provinces, mao zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This paper presents an analysis of the former chinese communist party leader chairman mao zedong s political career reigned 19491976, with regards to his success and failures. The legacy of mao zedong is mass murder the heritage.
Spence uses social, political, intellectual, and cultural history to provide good background information to maos life and also to explain the impacts of his policies. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the life of mao. There are a lot of the books in the market when it comes to the biographies and the memoirs as well. For some time there have been plans to commemorate the life of. At the beginning of his active life, mao zedong strongly opposed the feudal warlords and the imperialists, but his political ideas were still imbued with liberalism. Mao zedong led communist forces in china through a long revolution beginning in 1927 and ruled the nations communist government from its establishment in 1949. Mao zedong, principal chinese marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his countrys communist revolution and served as chairman chief of state of the peoples republic of china from 1949 until his death in 1976. Mao zedong led communist forces in china through a long revolution beginning in 1927 and ruled the nations communist government from its. Mao zedong left a complicated legacy for his people and the rest of the world to comprehend. Click download or read online button to get mao zedong book now.
According to the authoritative black book of communism, an estimated 65 million chinese died as a result of maos repeated, merciless attempts to create a new. The most important western guide to the life and works of mao zedong is stuart schram, whose the political thought of mao tsetung was published in 1963 paris and new york, and was soon followed by his closely researched biography, mao tsetung, new york, 1966. Mao zedong and chinas revolution ebook pdf download ebook. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Major events in the life of a revolutionary leader glossary comintern communist international or third international. In the midst of the meetings, on august 23, maos answer to khrushchev became public.
We have compiled quotations from chairman mao tsetung in order to help the broad masses learn mao tsetungs. Mao s sayings, printed in a little red book, were distributed during the cultural revolution. Mao tsetung on guerrilla warfare three days supply of rice. Mao begins to be challenged for control of the chinese communist party.
Mao zedong was the leader of the peoples republic of china. This sharply drawn and insightful account brings to life this modernday emperor and the tumultuous era that he did so much to shape. A life kindle edition by spence, jonathan d politics. Oct 16, 2017 10 horrible facts about mao zedongs policies and his personal life. All terms appearing in bold are included in the glossary. A penguin life has 2 available editions to buy at alibris. More than anyone else in recent history, mao zedong helped to reshape the social and political structures of his ancient and heavily populated country. Pdf this paper presents an analysis of the former chinese communist party leader chairman mao zedongs. Spence uses social, political, intellectual, and cultural history to provide good background information to mao s life and also to explain the impacts of his policies. Mao zedong was born on december 26, 1893 in a small. China began using those artillery shells mao had said were wearing out and started a massive bombardment of quemoy, an island just o the coast of fujian. But talking about the books having the content you want to. Founded in 1919 by vladimir ilyich lenin in the aftermath of the russian revolution of 1917, the comintern.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Spences mao zedong is a volume in the penguin lives series, which encompasses brief biographies of significant historical figures. A communist should have largeness of mind and he should be staunch and active, looking upon the interests of the revolution as his very life and subordinating his personal interests to those of the revolution. Every time mao had a bowel movement, his bodyguard li yinqiao had to grab a shovel and go out there with mao. December 26, 1893 september 9, 1976, also known as chairman mao, was a chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the peoples republic of china prc, which he ruled as the chairman of the communist party of china from its. The mao who lingers on the last page is a somewhat diminished, learlike figure, estranged from his wife.
You are a teenager in china during the time of mao zedong. Mao zedong was a chinese statesman whose status as a revolutionary in world history is probably next only to that of vladimir lenin 18701924. A life by philip short and mao zedong by jonathan spence. He gives mao his due as a military strategist, but pulls no punches when addressing such disastrous policies as the great leap and the cultural revolution. The text covers all of mao s life from birth to death, and for the most part treats each stage of his life as worthy of equal attention. Major events in the life of a revolutionary leader all terms appearing in bold are included in the glossary. Maos life is the chronological frame of the narrative, twentiethcentury. Peoples republic of china, mao zedong continues to occupy a central place. The early life of chinese revolutionary and politician mao zedong covered the first 27 years of his life, from 1893 to 1919. Inside china and russia today 1982, a comparison of the soviet union after joseph stalin with china after mao zedong, short is eminently qualified to write. Mao tsetung was the principal chinese marxist theorist, soldier and statesman who led his nations cultural revolution. Philip short has written a balanced, thorough to a fault, some have said and very well written. Maos works in the last few years has proved that to study selected quotations from chairman mao with specific problems in mind is a good way to learn mao tsetungs thought, a method conducive to quick results.
A life by philip short and mao zedong by jonathan spence two new biographies of the cuddly dictator are nearly definitive but one is 600 pages longer. This paper presents an analysis of the former chinese communist party leader chairman mao zedongs political career reigned 19491976, with regards to his success and failures. Mao zedong was born on december 26, 1893 in a small village. The movement that became known as the great proletarian cultural revolution represented an attempt by mao to go beyond the party rectification campaignsof which there had been many since 1942and to devise a new and more radical method for dealing with what he saw as the bureaucratic degeneration of the party. A life kindle edition by spence, jonathan d download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. As the era of maos rule is eclipsed by the great economic strides following deng xiaopings reforms, it becomes harder to judge maos place in history. Mao zedong 18931976 major events in the life of a revolutionary leader. The man stands, raises a water bottle to his lips, rinses his mouth, spits out the water. It was li yinqiaos duty to dig the chairman a hole and guard him while he was out therewhich was a long time. Life is therefore also a contradiction which is present in things and processes themselves, and which constantly originates and resolves itself. Mao zedong international bureau of education unesco. His father was one of the wealthiest farmers of the region and mao zedong had quite a comfortable childhood. He was one of the four children born to the couple. Mao zedong biography life, name, history, school, mother.