Chen claiming that, by the time she married Chiang, he had already divorced Mao, and that Chen was therefore his wife.

Chiang and Mao had a son, Ching-kuo, and a daughter, Chien-hua.

Maoists and other ' anti-revisionists ' viciously attack the changes after Mao Zedong's death, calling them the precise " capitalist road " Mao had pledged to fight during the early existence of the PRC.

He had believed that Mao's policies were largely responsible for the famine, but that Mao was misled about it, and finally when he found out, he stopped it and changed his policies.

However, claims from Jung Chang and Jon Halliday's controversial Mao: the Unknown Story allege that Mao knew about the famine from the beginning but didn't care, and eventually Mao had to be stopped by a meeting of 7, 000 top Communist Party members.

Before leaving, Lee learns from his teacher that Han's bodyguard O ' Hara ( Robert Wall ) had been involved in the death of his sister, Su Lin ( Angela Mao ), years ago, when she committed suicide to save herself from dishonour after being cornered by O ' Hara and a collection of Han's thugs.

It had a profound impact on the Russian Revolution and its ideas inspired Mao Zedong in his efforts at constructing a communist state in China.

Albanian-Chinese relations had stagnated by 1970, and when the Asian giant began to reemerge from isolation in the early 1970s, Mao and the other Communist Chinese leaders reassessed their commitment to tiny Albania.

Aged 13, Mao finished primary education, and his father had him married to Luo Yixiu ( 1889 – 1910 ), a woman eight years his senior, in order to unite their two land-owning families.

His political views of the time were also shaped by popular protests that had erupted following a famine in Changsha, the capital of Hunan ; Mao supported the protester's demands, but the armed forces soon suppressed the dissenters and executed their leaders.

It had been during this period that Mao had first learned of the imported western concept of socialism from a newspaper article, and intrigued, he read several pamphlets by Jiang Kanghu ( 1883 – 1954 ), a student who had founded the Chinese Socialist Party in November 1911.

Deciding that he would like to become a professional teacher, Mao enrolled at a teacher training college, the Fourth Normal School of Changsha, which had high standards yet low fees and cheap accommodation.

Leaving Changsha, Mao moved to the capital city of Peking, where his school mentor Yang Changji had recently migrated to take up a job at Peking University.

Mao would claim that although he did not accept Marxism at first, he had come under the influence of anarchism and was becoming " more and more radical " as the months went on.

In Peking, Mao found that he had achieved a level of fame among the revolutionary movement for his fervent article writing, and he set about soliciting support in overthrowing Zhang's rule in Hunan.

From Peking, Mao moved along to Shanghai, working as a laundryman and meeting with Chen Duxiu, who had been recently freed from prison ; together, they discussed Marxism, which Chen was also beginning to accept.

The first session of the National Congress of the Communist Party of China was attended by 13 delegates, Mao included, and initially met in a girls ' school that had been closed for the summer.

The Party had become poor, and Mao was disillusioned with the revolution and moved back to Shaoshan.

In China, the claim that Mao had " adapted Marxism – Leninism to Chinese conditions " evolved into the idea that he had updated it in a fundamental way applying to the world as a whole ; consequently, the term " Marxism – Leninism – Mao Zedong Thought " ( commonly known as Maoism ) was increasingly used to describe the official Chinese state ideology as well as the ideological basis of parties around the world who sympathized with the Communist Party of China ( such as the Communist Party of the Philippines, Marxist – Leninist / Mao Zedong Thought, founded by Jose Maria Sison in 1968 ).

Due to concerns about widespread and well-documented corruption in Chiang's government throughout his rule ( though not always with his knowledge ), the U. S. government limited aid to Chiang for much of the period of 1946 to 1948, in the midst of fighting against the People's Liberation Army led by Mao Zedong.

For Mao, on the other hand, this question would always be virtually impossible to answer.

"... Never can a man build a working structure for black capitalism, always does a man read Mao or Fanon ..."

However, Stalin always remained ambivalent in his support of the Chinese Communist Party and he and its leader Mao Zedong became hostile to each other by the early 1950s.

In this period, the Committee was always chaired by Mao Zedong.

In this article, Peng was called a " capitalist ", a " great ambitionist and great conspirator " who had " always opposed Chairman Mao ", and who was " the representative of the greatest capitalist-roader Shaoqi in the army ".

He took off the red felt scarf he had always been wearing and handed it to his trusted aide Zu Mao ( 祖茂 ), whom Dong Zhuo's soldiers then chased after while Sun Jian escaped.

Lin made sure that, whenever he and Mao were scheduled to appear in the same place, Lin would always arrive earlier than Mao, waiting to greet the Chairman.

Lin attempted to make all observers believe that he was Mao's closest follower, always appearing beside Mao in all of Mao's public appearances with a copy of Mao's Little Red Book.

The incident marked the end of the myth that Mao was always considered absolutely correct within the Party.

Mao does assume terrorism is usually part of the early phases, but it is not always present in revolutionary insurgency.

At that time, the young Yang Kaihui always heard her parents ’ praises to Mao Zedong, but just regarded him as her elder brother.

" Having lived in proximity to Mao for a number of years, Qi remarked that during this time he heard no rumour of Mao ever having extra-marital affairs despite the fact that other senior Party members were known to, and that Mao was always respectful towards " female comrades ".

Mao Zedong's surviving family members always visit the mausoleum annually on Mao's birthday and the day he died.

Madame Mao, as she is now called, organizes festivals for revolutionary plays and begins to work closely with the student movements which have always been so important in China.

Now the party secretary for Hunan, Mao stationed himself in Changsha, from where he went on a recruitment drive to gain support for the Communist Party.

Although Mao himself officially declared the Cultural Revolution to have ended in 1969, the power struggles and political instability between 1969 and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976 are now also widely regarded as part of the Revolution.

On April 6, 1967, Liu Shaoqi was openly and widely denounced by a Zhongnanhai faction whose members included Jiang Qing and Kang Sheng, and ultimately, Mao himself.

It initially targeted Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan, but would later involve Mao himself.

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.

A small number of slogans left at Tiananmen even attacked Mao himself, and his Cultural Revolution.

But it diluted blame on Mao himself by asserting that the movement was " manipulated by the counterrevolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing ", who caused its worst excesses.

During this period Mao clearly established himself as a Marxist theoretician and produced the bulk of the works which would later be canonized into the " thought of Mao Zedong ".

Mao himself is officially regarded by the CPC as a " great revolutionary leader " for his role in fighting the Japanese and creating the People's Republic of China, but Maoism as implemented between 1959 and 1976 is regarded by today's CPC as an economic and political disaster.

In Deng's day, support of radical Maoism was regarded as a form of " left deviationism " and being based on a cult of personality, although these ' errors ' are officially attributed to the Gang of Four rather than to Mao himself.

Mao thought of himself as a philosopher ; Zhou saw his role as an administrator or a negotiator.

In December 1931, Zhou replaced Mao Zedong as Secretary of the First Front Army with Xiang Ying, and made himself political commissar of the Red Army, in place of Mao.

Following the Great Leap Forward ( 1958 – 1961 ), Mao was highly criticized within the CCP, and turned to Jiang, among others, to support himself and persecute his enemies.

She was supported by a radical coterie, dubbed, by Mao himself, the Gang of Four.

" When the Soviet premier himself visited China the following year, Mao again asked him to explain what a joint fleet was.

In both national politics and Chinese popular culture, Mao established himself as a demigod accountable to no one, purging any that he suspected of opposing him and directing the masses and Red Guards " to destroy virtually all state and party institutions ".

The theory of Three Represents was believed by many political analysts to be Jiang's effort at extending his vision to Marxist – Leninist principles, and therefore elevating himself alongside previous Chinese Marxist philosophers Mao and Deng.

The word " Fān " was formerly used by the Chinese almost innocently in the sense of ' aborigines ' to refer to ethnic groups in South China, and Mao Zedong himself once used it in 1938 in a speech advocating equal rights for the various minority peoples.

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.

Mao, however, seems to have refused to do so himself.

The exact reason why Mao Zedong refused to reinstate the presidency was unclear, however it is now known that Mao did not want his political struggle with Liu Shaoqi to be remembered as his attempt to claim the title of the presidency for himself.