Topic > Analysis of Mao Zedong - 1784

Mao Zedong was born in a small village called Shaoshan in Hunan Province in 1893. He witnessed and experienced many wars. Beginning with the Opium War of 1940-42, Western invasion brought China into the narrative of Western history through force and war. The Chinese people suffered from oppression and exploitation, so much so that many intellectuals began to resist. The Wuchang Uprising subsequently broke out, marking the beginning of the 1911 revolution led by Sun Zhongshan. Mao Zedong also joined the local revolutionary army and served as a soldier in Hunan. In July 1921, with the efforts of Mao Zedong and other delegates, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai. Then, the Chinese Communist Party has gradually formed a solid ideological and social foundation. In 1935, the base of the Chinese Communist Party was established in Yan'an, where Mao Zedong emerged as the supreme leader. Two years later, the Anti-Japanese War (1937-1945) broke out, with the threat of the Japanese army, the Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party successfully cooperated and defended the invasion of Japan until 1945. Then the civil war broke out between the two parties. and the Communist Party won the battle with the wise leadership (like the Long March) of Mao Zedong. In 1949 “the Communist Party had taken control of almost the entire country and Mao Zedong had pronounced the