Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts the personalities and traits of Mao Zedong, founder of the Chinese Communist Party and Chiang Kai-shek, who was the dictator of the Republic of China for 26 years. According to the paper, the two men spent many years of their lives locked in a bitter political feud. Many people have characterized this feud as a feud between two men with very similar personalities. However, this essay argues that this was not the case.

From the Paper
"Mao Zedong was the founder of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and can be seen in very different ways. On the one hand, he was seen by millions as a supreme hero, and on the other hand, he is perceived as a ruthless mass-murdering dictator. Chiang Kai-shek was also a powerful and influential man, and dictator of the Republic of China for 26 years. The two men spent many years of their lives locked in a bitter political feud. Many people have characterized this feud as a feud between two men with very similar personalities. However, this essay will argue that this was not the case. Superficially they may have appeared the same, due to a..."

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Abstract
The paper discusses the many contributions of Mao Zedong as a top-notch political leader and military commander, as well as a protagonist for the oppressed class of China. The paper then considers the sly, ruthless, cunning and cruel side of Mao's persona and the mass murder he coordinated. The paper comes to the conclusion that Mao was both an immense contributor to communist China's achievements and a perpetrator of immense losses to the nation and its people.

Outline:
Introduction
Objective of the Paper
Mao-The Hero
Establishment of Soviet Areas in China
The Long March
The Japanese invasion
The Civil War
The Five-Year Plan
Mao-The icon of Chinese welfare
Mao - The anti-hero
The Great Leap Forward
The Great Cultural Revolution
Mao and manslaughter
Revelations of the book Mao: The Untold Story
Conclusion

From the Paper
"Mao Zedong is undoubtedly one of the top-notch political leaders and military commanders that the world has produced to date. His unparalleled prowess in the field of policy and warfare earned him highest laurels within the corridors of communist China, and a dubious certification of a shrewd leader of ruthless efficiency outside China. He was adorned with such lavishing praise as "the Great Leader Chairman Mao" (2007) when he headed the country and its communist party."

Tags:communism, China, Five-Year, Plan, Great, Leap, murder, famine

Abstract
This paper discusses how there are many different terms which have been used to describe Mao Zedong, including champion of the poor, visionary leader and brutal tyrant. The question remains as to whether Mao was truly a heroic leader of the revolution, or an evil tyrant oppressing the Chinese people to meet his own ends. While it may be argued that he could be both depending on the perspective of the individual it is important to understand why there remain very different views of Mao as a leader. The paper presents the different achievements of Mao during the Chinese revolution, along with the actions of Mao which have led to many portraying him as the villain of the people of China.

Outline:
Introduction
Hero
Villain
Conclusion

From the Paper
"By 1921 Mao had become a fully fledged Communist as a result of many factors which had impacted upon his life until that time. At 27 years old he led a team from Hunan to the first meeting of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. It was here that he took his first political steps, and was declared secretary of the Hunan branch of the Chinese Communist Party. Mao quickly began to unionize the manual workers in the area, such as the railroad workers, carpenters and coal miners. Seen as a visionary, even at this early stage, Mao quickly rose up through the ranks of the Communist Party. In 1925 Mao was put in charge of the Nationalist Party's propaganda department, at a time when Sun Yat-sen was attempting to reunify China through cooperation between Communist and Nationalist parties. "

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Abstract
This paper examines Mao Zedong's rise to power in the Communist Party of China and focuses, in particular, how the Long March, in which Mao led some 130,000 men and women across 6,000 miles of China's countryside, actually promoted and solidified Mao's leadership.

From the Paper
"Mao Zedong's leadership of 20th Century China has a heroic, almost mythic appeal to modern Communists, yet Chairman Mao cemented the majority of his power in the mid-1930s through a series of dramatic, forceful decisions. The greatest of these was a spectacular military campaign known as The Long March, in which Mao led some 130,000 men and women across 6,000 miles of China's countryside, losing nearly 120,000 of his soldiers to starvation and disease in the process. But by a magnificent twist of fate, instead of decimating him, the Long March proved his perseverance. It primarily created a mythology of Mao as Hero, but on more pragmatic terms it established a vital base of operations outside of the Kuomintang centers of power. It also strengthened his remaining army and roused support from a disgruntled peasant class who were later instrumental in shaping his mighty career."

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Abstract
This paper focuses on Chinese leader Mao Zedong, asserting that he unquestionably had one of the most striking personalities in history. The paper notes that Mao managed to take control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1935, established the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949, and ruled the most populous nation in the world with an iron fist until his death in 1976. Yet he came from commonplace beginnings. How are we to explain this? This essay examines this question from the point of view of Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

From the Paper
"Love him or hate him, Mao Zedong unquestionably had one of the most striking personalities in history. He managed to take control of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1935, established the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949, and ruled the most populous nation in the world with an iron fist until his death in 1976. Yet he came from commonplace beginnings. How are we to explain this? This essay examines this question from the point of view of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. One of the first things that strikes one when analyzing Mao is the ..."

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Abstract
The paper questions how Mao Zedong managed to take control of the Chinese Communist Party, establish the Peoples' Republic of China and rule the most populous nation in the world with an iron fist until his death when he came from commonplace beginnings. The paper examines this question from the point of view of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The paper explains that Mao dreamt of death and destruction as much as he dreamt of life and liberation, making him an extraordinary man. The paper maintains that this explains to some extent how this commonplace boy was able to change the world.

From the Paper
"The only thing these two responses have in common is passion. Anyone who can inspire such very different responses is clearly a most remarkable person. Another authority refers to Mao's megalomania, his reckless fearlessness, and his "idiosyncratic self-assertion [which] became deeply ingrained in the collective experience of the CCP and ... profoundly shaped the communal awareness of the Chinese intelligentsia as a whole" (Wei-Ming, 1996, p. 156). Moreover, as we know, the CCP on which Mao stamped his personality was collectively responsible for millions of deaths, to the point that one authority sees the "destruction of lives, property, institutions, and values" as "a defining characteristic of modern Chinese history" (Wei-Ming, 1996, p. 149). As far as "motiveless malignities" go, Mao had Iago hopelessly outclassed."

Tags:death, destruction, life, liberation, dreams, China, violence

Abstract
This undergraduate level paper is an exploration of the life of Mao Zedong. It focuses on his political leadership in China, his origins, and the nature of his rule. It concludes that, in the overall view, Mao's charisma was no match for his failures as a leader, which left China as little more than a barely industrialized Third World nation.

Abstract
This paper compares and contrasts the personalities of Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-Shek. The paper discusses the characteristics and actions of both men and their relationship with each other. After providing examples from their lives, the paper concludes that while their personalities appear to have had some similarities, particularly that both men were resolute, Mao was a far more ruthless and intolerant man.

From the Paper
"On the other hand, the most outstanding aspect of Chiang's personality appears to have been his fixity of purpose. This fixity of purpose played no small part in the fact that Chiang's Kuomintang party became the official government of China in the early 1930's. However, his army was defeated by Mao's army in 1949, clearing the way for Mao to found the PRC. While Mao went on to be dictator of China, Chiang was able to become the dictator of the Republic of China on the island of Taiwan for 26 years. Thus, one thing the two men certainly had in common was that they both came from relatively humble beginnings to eventually be dictators for decades - no mean feat, and certainly a testament to the very strong characters of both of them."

Tags:China, dictator, ruthless, liberator, communist

Abstract
This paper examines how Mao's early writing shows his theoretical attraction to Marxist analysis in elaborate class descriptions and how the campaign against the Nationalists of 1927-8 had shown him that a Communist revolution would involve strategy, long-term planning, and much political groundwork, in advance. This paper discusses two papers by Mao, plus the contrasting views of Sinologists Maurice Meisner and Mary C. Wright.

From the Paper
"Two 1920s papers by Mao Zedong indicate his better understanding of Chinese society after the failure of the campaign in 1927-1928 in the Hunan-Kiangi border region, especially, in the Communists' efforts to move further from Hunan, as the campaign continued. Mao's shift of focus, on account of his forces' defeat is interesting to examine in the light of two also different Western scholarly opinions as offered by Maurice Meisner and Mary C. Wright. "

Tags:mao1926, 8, theory, practicality

From the Paper
" In the late 1950s Mao Zedong's political thought underwent a radicalization process brought about by a number of forces affecting Chinese society. This radicalization process would also have profound consequences for the development of political thought and action in China over the next decade or more.


The Chinese Revolution in 1949 altered the structure of Chinese society both in the immediate by shifting from the previous regime to a Communist system and in the long term in efforts to alter the degree to which Chinese traditions would be followed or changed. After the Revolution, efforts at changing society were undertaken in a more methodical and all-inclusive manner, and many traditional institutions were either dismantled, prohibited, or downgraded in the effort to modernize and to bring about a new political and social attitude on the part of the..."

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