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Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Launched by Mao Zedong and CCP Anti-Rightist Campaign: 1957–1959 Nationwide 550,000 – 2 million Exact death toll is unknown. Official statistics shows that at least 550,000 people were purged and many died. [42] [43] [44] Launched by Mao Zedong and CCP. Xunhua Incident: 1958 Qinghai: 435
According to Frank Dikötter, a chair professor of humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the author of Mao's Great Famine, a book which details the Great Leap Forward and the consequences of the strong armed implementation of the economic reform, the total number of people who were killed in the famine which lasted from 1958 to 1962 ran ...
On May 16, 1966, Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution in mainland, China. [10] On August 5, Bian Zhongyun, the first vice principal of the Experimental High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, was beaten to death by a group of Red Guards—mostly her students—and became the first education worker in Beijing killed by the Red ...
Mao Zedong reading People's Daily (1961). Local party leaders, for their part, conspired to cover up shortfalls and reassign blame in order to protect their own lives and positions. [ 77 ] [ 115 ] Mao was kept unaware of some of the starvation of villagers in the rural areas who were suffering, as the birth rate began to plummet and deaths ...
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...
Mao's efforts to cool the Leap in late 1958 met resistance within the Party and when Mao proposed a scaling down of steel targets, "many people just wouldn't change and wouldn't accept it". [140] Thus, according to historian Tao Kai, the Leap "wasn't the problem of a single person, but that many people had ideological problems".
The Cultural Revolution ended with chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976 ... Several people were killed from being ... Many young people who were born after 1980 are ...