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Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong; a tyrant that changed china for the good and the bad. The son of a peasant farmer Born 1893 in shaoshan, Hunan province Mao Zedong was working full time at the age of 13. Then at the age of 17 he went to school to be a teacher. He then got a job at a library in Beijing at a university where he first started to study Marxist literature. Mao Zedong was an important leader and left a legacy because he was a big part of the revolution against the Nationalists, was responsible for millions of deaths, and Helped change china.

Mao Zedong was a leader that helped the Chinese Communist Party(CCP) over the the Kuomintang Nationalist Party(KMT). In 1921 Mao zedong appeared at his first Communist …show more content…

This relates to leadership because It shows how Mao Zedong had great traits to be a leader which allowed him to easily become a big part of the Chinese Communist Party. Additionally, with war between the Communists and the Nationalists in the background Mao built his own private army that could defend against the kuomintang attempts to destroy the communists ("Mao Zedong: Hero and Villain."). Another Example of how Mao helped overthrow the KMT is when Chiang Shak sent one million soldiers to the communist base. Defeat was inevitable, and the other communist leaders insisted on fighting and not retreating. But, after intense arguing Mao finally convinced the others that retreat was a better option. This lead to the infamous “Long March”. The long march was a 6,000 mile trek around asia. An estimated 100,000 men went but only 30,000 survived, and now they were all loyal to Mao ("Mao Tse-tung Biography."). These two pieces of evidence show how Zedong was a …show more content…

First off, Mao was a harsh leader because he sent at least 1.5 million people through reform camps where many died ("History - Historical Figures."). This shows Mao Zedong’s legacy because he protected these killings by saying they were necessary for securing his power. But, Mao’s worst mistake was still to come, in 1958 he launched the Great Leap Forward it’s purpose was to help industrialize china by creating “backyard steel factories” (“Mao Zedong: Hero and Villain”) ,but the plan backfired, since many of china’s traditional farmers were put to work on building the factories they could not tend to the crops which created a shortage of food leading to starvation. It is said that the number of deaths from hunger in each village reached 50 percent. During the years 1959-1961 the total amount of deaths reached 30-40 million (Mao Zedong: Hero and Villain;Edwards). Mao’s legacy is represented in this because his actions as leader caused millions upon millions to die. Finally, after his tragic mistake with the Great Leap Forward Mao was striped of his title of ruler of china. although, he was no longer leader of China he was still leader of the Communist Party. Then in 1966 to regain power Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. The objective of the Cultural Revolution was to rid china of “counter revolutionaries” by

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