Mao Tse Tung

Few people in history deserve sole credit for changing the fate of an entire nation. One of them is Mao Tse-tung, the man who rose from the peasantry to become the pre-eminent revolutionary theorist, political leader and statesman of Communist China (CNN, 2001). Mao Tse Tung was born on December 1893 in a village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province (China 's south). His family is wealthy peasant farmers. He has one sister and two younger brothers. Mao lives with his mother 's family in a neighboring village until he is eight. He then returns to Shaoshan to begin his education. When he was 10 he ran away from school. Due to expulsion from school three times, his father refuses to pay fees for his education. At the age of 14 Mao married with an 18 years old cousin of his called Lou, but he never lived with her long because she died at the very young age in 1910. Mao is allowed to resume his schooling. At age 16, and against his father 's wishes, he leaves Shaoshan and enrolls in a nearby higher primary school (Wise, 2007). It is during this period that his political consciousness begins to develop. (Wise, 2007). It is during this period that his political consciousness begins to develop. In this essay I will be discussing Mao Tse Tung idea & thinking.

In 1937, Japanese invasion forced the CCP & Kuomintang once again to form united front, Mao rise in stature as a national leader as the communist gained the authority as defender of the Chinese homeland. Within this period through his publication in 1937 of such essays as "On Contradiction" and "On Practice," he was the military thinker he is acknowledged as an important Marxist thinker. "On New Democracy" (1940) outlined a exceptional national form of Marxism appropriate to China; his "Talks at the Yen-ad Forum on Literature and Art" (1942) provided a basis for party control over cultural associations (Chen, 2001).
The Japanese invasion during W.W.11, forced the CCP and the Kuomintang to form a united front. Mao Tse-tung

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