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Mao's education began with Chinese classical literature. Mao told Edgar Snow in 1936 that he had started the study of the Confucian Analects and the Four Books at a village school when he was eight, but that the books he most enjoyed reading were Water Margin, Journey to the West, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Dream of the Red Chamber ...
Quotations from Chairman Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù, commonly known as the "红宝书" pinyin: hóng bǎo shū during the Cultural Revolution [1]), colloquially referred to in the English-speaking world as the Little Red Book, [2] is a compilation book of ...
Mao is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including common names 毛 (Máo), 茅 (Máo) and some rare names 茆 (Máo), 卯 (Mǎo), 貌 (Mào) etc. 毛 originated from Ji ( Chinese : 姬 ; pinyin : Jī ), the clan name of Zhou dynasty .
Mah or Mao, the Zoroastrianism's divinity of the moon; Mao (bird), a bird species Gymnomyza samoensis; Mao (currency), 1/10 of a Chinese yuan; Mao (restaurant chain), Asian-cuisine restaurant chain in Dublin, Ireland; Ma‘o, a Hawaiian name for a species of cotton; Maō, a demon or devil in Japanese mythology, folklore, and fiction
Here, Mao summarised the correlation between Marxist theory and Chinese practice: "The target is the Chinese revolution, the arrow is Marxism–Leninism. We Chinese communists seek this arrow for no other purpose than to hit the target of the Chinese revolution and the revolution of the east."
During the ten years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), the People's Publishing House published 870 different editions of Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung (Volumes 1–4), with a total of 325 million paperbacks and 2.55 million hardcover copies of the Chinese editions created. The Selected Works were also translated into a 14 different ...
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The proclamation of the People's Republic of China was made by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), on October 1, 1949, in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The government of a new state under the CCP, formally called the Central People's Government , was proclaimed by Mao at the ceremony, which marked the foundation of the ...