During the Long March, the communists reorganized under a new leader, Mao Zedong ( Mao Tse-tung ).

Even after the war Stalin concluded a non-aggression pact between the USSR and Chiang's KMT regime in China and instructed Mao and the Chinese communists to cooperate with Chiang and the KMT after the war.

Mao personally welcomed these returning communists, and Hu Yaobang returned to communist forces, where he would remain for rest of his life.

Today Taiwanese law retains the closest affinity to the codifications from that period, because of the split between Chiang Kai-shek's nationalists, who fled there, and Mao Zedong's communists who won control of the mainland in 1949.

Mao was not able to force his position, and the communists cooperated with the Kuomintang and fought the Japanese.

On that day, they had an open ceremony for the new country, and Mao Zedong and other communists attended the military parade.

However, after the third counter encirclement campaign, Mao was removed from the leadership and replaced by the Chinese communists returning from the Soviet Union such as Wang Ming, and the command of the Chinese Red Army was handled by a three man committee that included Wang Ming's associates Otto Braun ( Li De ), the Comintern military advisor, Bo Gu, and Zhou Enlai.

This situation had already convinced Mao Zedong and his supporters to believe that the communists should abandon their bases in the Jiangxi Soviet republic.

By contrast, in northern China, as controlled by Mao Zedong's communists, an altogether different type of literature was developing, dedicated to exalting the communist movement.

It was soon pressed into service to support Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang forces in the civil war between them and the communists under Mao Zedong.

Yuan Wencai ( 袁文才 ; also Yuan Xuansan 袁選三 ) was a former bandit chieftain who operated in the mountainous area of Jinggangshan in Jiangxi province, China, from 1923, and then joined the communists, becoming a protégé of Mao Zedong during their formative period in the Jiangxi Soviet.

Wang Zuo 王佐 ( also Wang Yunhui 王雲輝 or Wang Yunfei 王雲飛 ), nicknamed Nandougu ( 南斗牯 ), ( May 1898-February 24, 1930 ) was a former bandit chieftain who operated in the mountainous area of Jinggangshan in Jiangxi province, China, from 1923, and then joined the communists, becoming a protégé of Mao Zedong during their formative period in the Jiangxi Soviet.

Zhang was accused of counterrevolutionary crimes and dismissed from all positions during the Cultural Revolution, when many veteran communists were attacked by Red Guards inspired by Mao Zedong's vision of continuous revolution, and one of his leg was broken as a result of being struggled by Mao Zedong.

Other communists, particularly those sometimes dubbed " post-Maoists ", do indeed disagree with the professional revolutionaries concept and view it as antithetical to the " mass party " ideal ( party physically composed of the masses of people, rather than an elite intellectual core ) advocated especially strongly by Mao, although never realized under his leadership in China.

In China, before Mao Zedong and the communists took power, the Shanghai Commune of 1927 was created as a grassroots movement by the workers of Shanghai.

Even Wen Yiduo, a scholar whom Mao Zedong and the Chinese communists often praised, expressed his respect and admiration for John Leighton Stuart in his famous last speech.

Joining forces under the leadership of Mao and Zhu, this collection of communists, bandits, Guomindang deserters, and impoverished peasants became the First Workers ' and Peasants ' Army, or Red Army — the military arm of the Chinese Communist Party.

The early 1950s when Left Wing Communists, were purged completely at all levels of the CPC, to Stalin ’ s birthday in 1951 where Mao is reported to have ordered the execution of some 50, 000 intellectuals, women communists, straight and gay communist men and lesbians and 3rd gender were executed in one night – mainly shot in their bunks at the camps they survived.

However, during the years when Mao was China's " Great Helmsman ", a range of positive changes also came to China.

Chen came into conflict with Mao Zedong in 1925 over Mao's essay " An Analysis of Classes in Chinese Society ".

When Mao came to power in 1949, he addressed the issue of women's rights and tried to establish women's equality through the " iron girls " of national development ideal.

Zhang first came to prominence as the result of his October 1958 Jiefang (" Liberation ") magazine entitled “ Destroy the Ideas of Bourgeois Legal Ownership .” Mao Zedong ordered the reproduction of the article in Renmin Ribao (" People ’ s Daily "), and personally wrote an accompanying “ Editor ’ s Note ” giving mild approval.

His death came six months after the death of Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai, and just two months before the death of Mao Zedong.

He views “ Africadian ” literature as “ literal and liberal — I canonize songs and sonnets, histories and homilies .” Clarke has stated that he found further writing inspiration in the 1970s and his “ individualist poetic scored with implicit social commentary ” came from the ‘ Gang of Seven ’ intellectuals, “ poet-politicos: jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, troubadour-bard Bob Dylan, libertine lyricist Irving Layton, guerrilla leader and poet Mao Zedong, reactionary modernist Ezra Pound, Black Power orator Malcolm X and the Right Honourable Pierre Elliott Trudeau .” Though flawed, Clarke found “ as a whole, the group ’ s blunt talk, suave styles, acerbic independence, raunchy macho, feisty lyricism, singing heroic and a scarf-and-beret chivalry quite, well, liberating .”

A breakthrough came in early 1971, when Chairman Mao invited a team of American table tennis players to visit China and play against top Chinese players.

Tensions over this " workerist " tendency came to a head within the RCP in 1977 around whether China remained a communist country after the death of Mao Zedong and subsequent leadership struggles in the People's Republic of China between the Gang of Four and Hua Guofeng.

The ideological trajectory of CPC-ML changed from Maoism and support for the People's Republic of China against what it saw as the revisionist ( or Khrushchevite ) Soviet Union, to later siding with Albania during the Sino-Albanian split that came two years after the death of Mao Zedong.

Kang ’ s final political act came only two months before his death, when he warned Mao Zedong that Deng Xiaoping opposed the Cultural Revolution and should be purged again, advice that Mao ignored.

An advance media kit for a recent speech claimed parts of the present curriculum came " straight from Chairman Mao ", however the reference was dropped from her speech.

It came from a quote by Cao Mao, fourth emperor of Wei, who launched an unsuccessful uprising against Sima Zhao to try to take back imperial power.

When the communist party came to power in 1949, Mao Zedong used the Soviet Union as China ’ s example for modernization.

The enemies surrounded the pillar and shot arrows at it till they realized they had been fooled, whereupon Zu Mao came out of his ambush to attack Hua Xiong, but with a yell, Hua Xiong killed Zu Mao.

Then in 1949 came the communist revolution, led by Mao.

Fortunately for Wang Kuang, the forces of Qiao Mao and Yuan Yi came to his rescue.

The dynasty was established by Sukaphaa, a Shan prince of Mong Mao who came to Assam after crossing the Patkai mountains.

The Ahom kings ( Ahom language: Chao-Pha, Assamese language: Swargadeo ), were descendants of the first king Sukaphaa ( 1228 – 1268 ) who came to Assam from Mong Mao in 1228.

The poster came to the attention of Mao Zedong, who had it broadcast nationally and published in the People's Daily.

China initiated economic reforms when Deng Xiaoping came to power after Mao Zedong died.

This has not been mentioned in other accounts, but Sun Shuyun found another source and discovered that the idea came from Mao.

Despite being born into a peasant family, when Mao came to power in 1949 he had little concern for the welfare of the Chinese peasantry.

The most notable examples are Sun Yat-Sen's Three Principles of the People ideology and Mao Zedong's Maoism, a variant of Marxism – Leninism.

The Communists, tipped-off that a Nationalist offensive was imminent, retreated in the Long March, during which Mao Zedong rose from a mere military official to the most influential leader of the Communist Party of China.

Mao is still regarded as one of the most important figures in modern world history, and was named one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century by Time magazine.

By contrast, neighboring Chinese leader Mao Zedong was mostly ignored and Kim Il-sung rejected most of his policies such as the Hundred Flowers Campaign and ( later ) the Cultural Revolution.

Liu Shaoqi, once the most powerful man in China after Mao, was sent to a detention camp, where he later died in 1969.

On January 15 Deng Xiaoping delivered Zhou's official eulogy in a funeral attended by all of China's most senior leaders with the notable absence of Mao himself, who had grown increasingly critical of Zhou.

These directives could be interpreted to suit personal interests, in turn aiding factions ' goals in being most loyal to Mao Zedong.

Red Guard slogans were the most violent in nature, such as “ Strike the enemy down on the floor and step on him with a foot ”, “ Long live the red terror !” and “ Those who are against Chairman Mao will have their dog skulls smashed into pieces ”.

Historian Anne F. Thurston wrote that it " led to loss of culture, and of spiritual values ; loss of hope and ideals ; loss of time, truth and of life ..." Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as " a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war ...", calling Mao " one of the most tyrannical despots of the twentieth century.

# The Mature Maoist Period from 1935 – 1940: Intellectually, this was Mao ’ s most fruitful time.

Zhou becomes the most powerful person in the Party ; Mao becomes Zhou's assistant.

The most senior leaders to support Mao in 1932 were Zhou Enlai, who had become disillusioned with the strategic leadership of other senior leaders in the Party, and Mao's old comrade, Zhu De.

Mao is most likely descended from the German game Mau Mau, or from Eleusis, which was published in Martin Gardner's column in the Scientific American in June 1959.

In most variants of Mao, no unnecessary speech is allowed, and one may only speak when required to do so by the rules.

In February 1957, Mao gave one of his most famous addresses in which he said " Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

The most widely produced editions of the Quotations of Chairman Mao were published with a printed red vinyl cover wrapper over cardboard with pages bound in 64 folios that included colour photos of Mao.

Mao's personal physician Li Zhisui, on the other hand, suggests that the campaign was " a gamble, based on a calculation that genuine counterrevolutionaries were few, that rebels like Hu Feng had been permanently intimidated into silence, and that other intellectuals would follow Mao's lead, speaking out only against the people and practices Mao himself most wanted to subject to reform.

In 1969, the Cultural Revolution Group was abolished, with those of its members who were most loyal to Mao Zedong admitted into the PSC.

Mao, who was also Chairman of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, was clearly the most powerful person in China.

* Other communist leaders such as Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ho Chi Minh and most recently Kim Jong-il have also had their cadavers preserved in the fashion of Lenin's preservation and are now displayed in their respective mausoleums.

He was the most senior commander responsible for defending the Communist leadership in Shaanxi from Kuomintang forces, saving Mao from being captured at least once.

At the August 20, 1937 Lochuan Conference, Mao believed that the united front should be used as a feint, giving token resistance to the Japanese while saving the strength of the Red Army for the eventual confrontation with the Kuomintang, but Peng, along with most other senior military and political leaders at the time, disagreed, and believed that the Red Army should genuinely focus on fighting the Japanese.