The upheavals of the Cultural Revolution left the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party eager for stability, even as forces ...

Examination of the major events which took place during Mao's era, 1949-1976, and political and economic reforms ... Assessment of the role of Mao Zedong will provide a basis for understanding Chinese ...

Mao Zedong remains one of the most controversial figures in modern ... covers Mao's career in the pre-revolutionary period, 1893–1949. As an extended official account of Mao, and Mao's thought, this ...

Sotheby's Mao Zedong led the Chinese Communist Party, which defeated the Kuomintang in 1949 and founded the People's Republic of China. As a young man he worked in Peking University Library and ...

Traditionally, on the anniversary of Mao Zedong's proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949, the ...

PRESENTER:'On the 1st of October 1949, in Beijing, 'Mao announced the birth of a new China.' PRESENTER:There's the Tiananmen gate where Mao ZeDong made that famous speech. It was only 38 years ...

Mao Zedong, often called Chairman Mao, helped found Communist China in 1949 and led it through a tumultuous period in the 1960s and 1970s known as the Cultural Revolution, in which more than a ...

CHINA IN REVOLUTION charts the country's most violent era where decades of civil war and foreign invasions led to the bloody battle for power between Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek. THE MAO YEARS ...

On October 1, 1949 a grand ceremony was witnessed by 300,000 people in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, and Mao Zedong, chairman of the Central People’s Government, solemnly proclaimed the founding ...

The Chinese president leads a ceremony honouring the former leader at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on Tuesday Xi tells event ...

Michael Wood explores the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process ... declared in 1949, a success, or did Mao make mistakes?