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Frail and barely able to speak or walk, Mao met the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the latter's visit to Beijing. [1] [page needed] At around 17:00 on 2 September 1976, [2] Mao had a heart attack, far more severe than his previous two earlier that year which affected a much larger area of his heart, leaving him ...
Mao's parents altogether had five sons and two daughters. Two of the sons and both daughters died young, leaving the three brothers Mao Zedong, Mao Zemin, and Mao Zetan. Like all three of Mao Zedong's wives, Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan were communists. Like Yang Kaihui, both Mao Zemin and Mao Zetan were killed in warfare during Mao Zedong's lifetime.
Launched by Mao Zedong and CCP. Three-anti and Five-anti campaigns: 1951–1952 Nationwide 100,000+ Exact death toll is unknown. In Shanghai alone, from 25 January to 1 April 1952, at least 876 people committed suicide. [37] [38] [39] Launched by Mao Zedong and CCP. 1954 Cathay Pacific Douglas DC-4 shootdown: 1954, 23 July
The Cultural Revolution ended with chairman Mao Zedong's death in 1976 and the arrest of the Gang of Four. [38] [39] That movement, spearheaded by Mao, had caused severe damage to the country's initially diverse economic and social fabric. [40] As a result, the country was now mired in poverty as economic production slowed or came to a halt. [41]
Mao Zedong was the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) which took control of China in 1949 until his death in September 1976. During this time, he instituted several reform efforts, the most notable of which were the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. In January 1958, Mao launched the second five-year plan, which was ...
A prominent Chinese artist known for his political critiques of Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution has been detained in China, after police raided his art studio near Beijing.
[2] In 1957, Mao Zedong gave an influential speech to senior CPC officials in which he stated that 700,000 had been killed from 1950 and 1952, and another 70,000 to 80,000 from 1953 to 1956, for a total of 770,000-780,000. [21] Some historians, such as Daniel Chirot, claim that Mao Zedong estimated that 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 had been killed. [22]
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 ...