Mao, Zedong

*		1893
†		1976

Beruf
Chinese politician

Überblick

	1921 co-founder of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
	1921/22 Party Secretary in Hunan province
	1923 member of the Central Committee of the CPC
	after the break with the Guomindang (Wade-Giles: Kuomintang) forms the “Red Army”
	1934/35 leads the “long march” to Northwest China
	since 1935 Chairman of the CPC
	leading role in the united front in the war against Japanese invaders after 1937
	after World War II, victory against the Guomindang forces; proclaims the People' s Republic of China in 1949
	1954/55 State President
	1966-1968 initiates the “cultural revolution”, with a high point in the cult of personality based on his person
	after his retirement continues as Chairman of the CPC

Sonstiges
recognized poet and theoretician of the so-called Maoism