This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

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.

In an arranged marriage, Chiang was married to a fellow villager named Mao Fumei.

While married to Mao, Chiang adopted two concubines ( concubinage was still a common practice for well-to-do, non-Christian males in China ): he married Yao Yecheng ( 姚冶誠, 1889 – 1972 ) in 1912 and Chen Jieru ( 陳潔如, 1906 – 1971 ) in December 1921.

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

Under Mao Zedong, the People's Republic of China held its first in 1952, but the second in 1963 was secret and unacknowledged until the early 1980s.

There has been a gradual relaxation of Marxist interpretation after the death of Mao in 1976, which was accelerated after the Tiananmen Square protest of 1989 and Revolutions of 1989, which have damaged Marxism's ideological legitimacy in the eyes of Chinese people.

Mao Zedong's revolution that founded the PRC was nominally based on Marxism-Leninism with a rural focus based on China's social situations at the time.

Also, some Maoist groupings attack even some of the shifts and changes that occurred while Mao was still alive and in leadership, like his 1972 welcoming of Richard Nixon ( see lesser evil for more on this event ).

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.

Den was influenced by Mao Tse-Tung ’ s view of peasantry, so he thought drumming was rooted in the bodies that physically worked the land.

At the age of 13, Hopper and his family moved to San Diego, where his mother worked as a lifeguard instructor and his father was a post office manager ( Hopper has acknowledged, though, that his father was in the Office of Strategic Services, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency, in China with Mao Zedong ).

This recent growth was inspired in part by theoretical works on guerrilla warfare, starting with the Manual de Guerra de Guerrillas by Matías Ramón Mella written in the 19th century and, more recently, Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare and Lenin's text of the same name, all written after the successful revolutions carried by them in China, Cuba and Russia respectively.

There was friction between Stalin and Mao from the beginning.

Stalin did not believe Mao would be successful so he was less than enthusiastic in helping Mao.

But there was still a lot of tension between the two leaders and resentment by Mao for Stalin's less than enthusiastic help during the civil war in China.

Iven was also suspected of being a friend of Mao Zedong and especially Zhou Enlai.

Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing was made in the hope, but by no means the certainty, that he would see chairman Mao.

* In the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party of China was organised as a Leninist vanguard party, based upon Maoism ( The Thought of Mao Zedong ), the Chinese practical application of Marxism-Leninism, specific to Chinese socio-economic conditions.

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao ( December 26, 1893September 9, 1976 ), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and politician.

As a result, Mao is still officially held in high regard by many in China as a great political strategist, military mastermind, and savior of the nation.

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.

Mao and many members of the Chinese Communist Party were opposed to these changes, believing that it would have negative repercussions for the worldwide Marxist movement, among whom Stalin was still viewed as a hero.

Mao wrote that despite having undergone a Communist revolution, China's political hierarchy was still dominated by " bourgeois " elitist elements, capitalists, and revisionists, and that these counter-revolutionary elements were indeed still present at the top ranks of the party leadership itself.

A year later, the Red Guard factions were dismantled entirely ; Mao feared that the chaos they caused — and could still cause — might harm the very foundation of the Communist Party of China.

According to official sources, sensing the reduction of Lin's power base and his declining health, Lin's supporters plotted to use the military power still at their disposal to oust Mao in a coup.

Although Mao Zedong Thought is still listed as one of the four cardinal principles of the People's Republic of China, its historical role has been re-assessed.

Mao Dun had already started to develop his writing skills when he was still in primary school.

After 1943 Mao Dun did not produce any major works, but still wrote some articles and essays.

Her pictures of Boris Pasternak's home, Pushkin's library, Chekhov's house, Mao Zedong's bedroom, as well as artists ' studios and cemetery memorials, are permeated with the spirit of invisible people still present.

After the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution, the official attitude became more tolerant but restrictions on feng shui practice are still in place in today's China.

Until Mao Zedong's death, Kunming was still generally thought in much of the rest of the country as a remote frontier settlement and so it acted as a place up to then for the government to exile people who had fallen politically out of favor, especially during the Cultural Revolution.

Peng was still in command of China's armed forces when Mao ordered the shelling of Jinmen ( Quemoy ) and Matsu, islands off the coast of Fujian that were still held by the Kuomintang, in the late summer and autumn of 1958.

Jiang wore it only on special occasions, such as to state dinners, but this practice was almost totally discontinued by his successor Hu Jintao .. Hu Jintao still wears the Mao suit, however, on special occasions, such as military parades .. By the early part of the 21st century, the Mao suit is rarely worn even on formal occasions.

Today among the Chinese people, the Mao suit has been abandoned by some of the younger generation in urban areas, but is still used as formal attire by many.

Although Liu had this man arrested, Mao still learnt of the event, and Liu ’ s worries eventually turned into reality.

Liu and Deng's relationship was greatly exaggerated by the Chinese general populace as a way to protest Mao Zedong's disastrous Cultural Revolution: In 1972, shortly after the death of Chinese Field Marshal Chen Yi, Liu told his family that after his death, he wanted his funeral to be held by Deng, and his eulogy to be done by Deng, and this was when Deng was still under house arrest and Liu did so to show his support.

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.

Here, Mao was married to He Zizhen.

Also while in Yan ' an, Mao divorced He Zizhen and married the actress Lan Ping, who would become known as Jiang Qing.

She married Mao in Yan ' an in November 1938, and is sometimes referred to as Madame Mao in Western literature, serving as Communist China's first first lady.

On November 28, 1938, Jiang and Mao married in a small private ceremony following approval by the Party's Central Committee.

The leader of the clique, Jiang Qing, was married to Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong.

** Xiahou Mao, married Cao Cao's daughter Princess Qinghe, appointed as General Who Pacifies the West

In 1939 she married Deng in front of Mao Zedong's cave dwelling in Yan ' an.

In Yan ’ an, Jiang became the lover of Mao Zedong, who later married her.

** Daughter ( 24 June 1708-11 January 1776 ), personal name unknown, born to Lady Mao, married Sun Wufu ( 孫五福 ) in 1724.

When Liu Biao named his oldest son Liu Qi as his heir on his deathbed, Cai Mao and his nephew Zhang Yun wrote a forged will choosing Liu Biao's second son Liu Cong, because Liu Cong was married to Cai Mao's niece.

She married Mao Zedong that winter, without any wedding ceremony or other celebrations.

** Princess Qinghe ( 清河長公主 ), younger sister, married to Xiahou Mao