Mao Zedong: Quotes & Facts

Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung was a Chinese revolutionary, politician, and author. As chairman of the Communist Party of China (1943-1976), chairman of the Central People's Government (1949-1954) and chairman of the People's Republic of China (1954-1959), he was the leading politician who governed the People's Republic of China he founded from 1949 to 1976. The Maoist political movement is named after him.Influenced by the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, which created the Republic of China, the movement of May 4, 1919 and his student days, Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party and the Red Army, which fought against Kuomintang troops in the Chinese Civil War (1927-1949) and won and established the People's Republic of China shortly after the united front of the Second Japanese-Chinese War. After its takeover, China's transformation from a backward agricultural feudal state to a political and economic superpower began.