Mao zedong brief biography of abraham

This article explores the lives of a few famous leaders whose health issues significantly impacted their countries and, in some cases, the world.

The eldest of four children, Mao was born into a modest but comfortable peasant household in Shaoshan village in the southern Chinese province.

After three years in China, my father was appointed Polish Ambassador to Latin America based in Mexico City.

Jonathan Spence captures Mao in all his paradoxical grandeur and sheds light on the radical transformation he unleashed that still reverberates in China today.

Mao's lust for control and fear of betrayal kept his court and his country in turmoil.

After three years in China, my father was appointed Polish Ambassador to Latin America based in Mexico City....

A brief Mao Zedong biography

Two men affected his political interests profoundly while in Peking – library chief Li Ta-chao and a professor of literature, Chen Tu-hsui.

Both were radical Marxists who later founded the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP.

Mao declared himself a Marxist-Leninist in , and officially joined the CCP, but two years later he became a junior partner to the Kuomintang (nationalist) party of Sun Yet Sen.

However, when Chiang Kai-sheck purged the Party’s left, Mao fled to the Ching-Kang Mountains and began a guerrilla war with varying fortunes over the next decade.

Despite declaring a Chinese Soviet Republic in , Mao was increasingly unable to hold out against superior Kuomintang forces.

By October , only of his Red Army survived the Long March – trekking 12, km to the safety of the Shanxi provinces.

Change in fortunes

But his fortunes changed dramatically in December , when a “United Front” with Chiang Kai-Sheck against the Japanese gave him a reprie