Abstract
This paper contains in-depth research into the history of China's communist leader Mao Tse-tung, speculated to be the most powerful person who has ever lived. This paper delves into Mao's political and military career and examines his writings and thoughts that dominated the functioning of the People's Republic from 1949-76. Mao authored some 2,300 publications and 740 million copies of his "Quotations" have been printed. Adapting communism to Chinese conditions Mao stressed the need for rural rather than urban-based revolutions in Asia, for reducing rural-urban differences, and for perpetual revolution to prevent the emergence of new elites.
Topics covered in this report include:
Introduction
The Young Mao
The Rise of the CCP - Mao Tse Tung - The Cataclysmic Years
The Civil War: The Revolutionary Mao
The KMT and the Long March
Achievements of the Kuomintang (KMT)
Conclusion
Endnotes
Bibliography

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"One major area of dispute between Mao and the Returned Student leadership was military strategy. By early 1930s Mao had developed very strong opinions in this area. Despite the fact that he was without professional military training, he had always taken the strongest interest in war and strategy. The issues that divided him and the Central committee were not narrowly technical, but had important political implications."

Tags:communism, political, history, china, asia, military

Abstract
This paper compares Madame Chiang Kai-sek's view of socio-economic evolution as expressed in her description of the "New Life Movement" with Mao Tse-Tung's view of socio-economic evolution. The paper explains why the two views are entirely at odds.

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"The descriptions of the communist revolution and the "New Life Movement" by Mao Tse-Tung and Madame Chiang Kai-shek respectively demonstrate two very different and opposing views of socio-economic evolution. Tse-Tung's view looks to the peasant class for a revolution from below while Mme Chiang's "New Life Movement" seeks to impose authority on the peasant class for a revolution from above. In his report Mao Tse-Tung describes a revolution as an uprising, an act of violence whereby one class overthrows another. He is specifically..."

Tags:new life movement, china, 1930s

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"Mao Tse-tung was one of the most important military as well as political figures of the twentieth century. His doctrine of protracted guerilla revolutionary war had a major influence on the history of the second half of the twentieth century, and his military doctrines were successfully employed by the North Vietnamese to stymie the United States during the Vietnam war. Yet--in contrast to most famous generals--his military career is not one of dramatic victories won in the field. Indeed, his most famous single military exploit is a retreat, the Long March.

In order to understand the nature and significance of Mao's military thought, we must understand both the political context of that thought and the military context in which Mao operated. In spite of the famous dictum of Clausewitz that war is an ... "

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This paper begins with a synopsis of the first millennium of Chinese history and the rise of Mao Tse Tung to power. It traces the childhood and early history of this communist leader and explains his take on Marxist and Communist ideology. The paper then turns to discuss the first phase of Chinese political and economic development (1952 to 1957) and Mao's economic policy. The era of the "Great Leap Forward" is explored and the 1959-60 famine is brought up as Mao's first failure. The paper looks at the involvement of Deng in China's leadership before and after the death of Mao Tse Tung and at Mao's status as a visible icon throughout China. His aims and involvement in the Cultural Revolution of 1966 are studied and the differences between Mao's and his successor, Deng's leadership are raised. The paper concludes by evaluating and comparing the relative successes of these two leaders.

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"Though both were dedicated to the communist ideology, as each had their time at the helm as Emperors in their own right. Mao Tse Tung was the high priest of Chinese communism, charismatic, energetic, calculating, and a true personal power. Mao led ideologically with great slogans and focused on what should be rather than what was, he actively shunned the West, and maintained an archaic absolutism based upon a cult of personality that resulted in the failures of the Great Leap Forward, the Famine of 1959-1960, and eventually to the Cultural Revolution. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the impact of Mao Tse Tung's ideology upon the form and function of China."

Tags:childhood, ideology, economic, policy, Great, Leap, Forward, famine, Deng, icon, Cultural, Revolution, leadership, comparison

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"Mao Tse Tung in Historical Perspective

This research will examine the life and times of Mao Tse Tung in historical context, in order to more fully understand the nature of Mao's role in Chinese history. In the centuries before Mao's birth, China was possibly the world's least aggressive major nation. It was a center of learning and culture, but it had no military power of any consequence. This resulted in part from the pacifist teachings of the Buddhist religion (which had many converts among the Chinese) and in part from the nature of Chinese society, which was peaceful and serene, at least in comparison with the societies of Northern Europe.

No major empire has ever grown up in a plentiful region and then gone on to conquer the more poverty-stricken areas of the world. In every major case (Rome's conquest of Greece and Egypt ..."

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"The purpose of this research is to examine the views of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Mao Tse-tung on the subject of whether violence should be used to defeat imperialism, achieve independence, and gain social justice. The plan of the research will be to set forth the historical and political context in which the views of Mao and Gandhi emerged, and then to discuss how their arguments differ, as well as the arguments for and against the use of violence, with a view toward suggesting the position that appears to lend itself most strongly to political and historical cogency.
The public lives of Mao Tse-tung and Mohandas K. Gandhi were roughly contemporary as far as achievement of their respective goals of political revolution are concerned. The elder contemporary, Gandhi, was assassinated at the age of 80 in 1948, ..."

Tags:INDIA, CHINA

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This essay focuses on the causes and effects of the Chinese revolution. The writer discusses the way in which Mao Tse-tung and the communists came to power in the region and explains how China was affected by this communist revolution. The paper also gives some other examples of this type of revolution in South East Asia.

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"The fall of the Manchu dynasty in China led to a civil war of epic proportions. The chief protagonists were the Guomindang (Nationalist Party) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In 1936 a cease-fire was called to deal with the Japanese invasion, however civil war returned in 1946. Despite support from the US and USSR and an army four times the size of that of the CCP, Beijing fell in January 1949 and the nationalist government fled to Taiwan."

Tags:ccp, guomindang, kuomintang, nationalists, party, tung, zedong

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"The Chinese Revolution was a massive shift in social, political, cultural, and economic thinking and in the institutions of Chinese society. The Revolution was led by Mao Tse-Tung and his followers and took place in stages, putting certain Marxist and Leninist conceptions into practice in China and involving both a violent overthrow of the existing government and the long process of transforming Chinese society into a socialist enterprise. Different writers have examined these changes and the role of Mao in effecting them. Stuart Schram in Mao Tse-Tung (1966) examines the issue in terms of the man - his life, his education, his thinking, and how his view of the world was formed and would motivate his actions. Jerome Ch'.n in Mao and the Chinese revolution (1965) also considers the Revolution in terms of Mao and the development of his thinking, but he gives much more..."

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"Andy Warhol's Mao Tse Tung (1972) is a silk-screen portrait of the Chinese leader that was made in many versions. It is one of the series of silk-screens that he made on the subject of fame. They began in the early 1960s with his many portraits of Marilyn Monroe whose sad death in 1962 led him to contemplation of what it meant to be famous and what it could possibly be worth. The fame of the individuals in these portraits was usually of the Hollywood variety and various representations of Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, and others are among the best known. Usually the different versions employed the same image--sometimes repeatedly within the same piece. In every instance, however, Warhol's method was to use appropriated images. They were usually taken from the press or from Hollywood promotional materials and adapted for the artist's purposes."

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This paper discusses how, on his death, Lu Hsun was celebrated by Mao Tse-tung and others of the Communist Party as a spiritual father of the revolution, as its literary voice. The writer questions if this was simply the party taking advantage of the now silent writer's reputation, or whether he was truly the revolutionary that Mao claimed him to be.

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"Even though Lu Hsun was a devoted Marxist, and is credited with bringing many devotees into the fold of communism, he himself balked at joining the party, and never did, which was perceived as no small matter in determining enemies of the state during the cultural revolution that was to shortly follow. On studying Lu Hsun's life and his thoughtful approach to it, one realizes that it is doubtful that this was merely an oversight, but rather represented a hesitancy on his part to fully embrace the revolution that was unfolding. It may have been that he was not convinced that the revolution that had yet to mature in China was the real revolution. Throughout his work, he shows a tendency to rate the quality of revolutions, as he believed not all were equal. "But only great revolutions can change literature, not small ones, for these do not count as revolutions." (Hsun/Yang p327)"

Tags:marxist, mao, tse-tung, revolutionary