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Mao died ten minutes later at 00:10 local time on 9 September 1976 at age 82. [3] The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) delayed the announcement of his death until 16:00 later that day, when a radio message broadcast across the nation announced the news of Mao's passing while appealing for party unity. [4]
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.
Airliner shootdown By People's Liberation Army Air Force, 10 of the 19 on board died Sufan movement: 1955–1957 Nationwide 53,000 [42] [43] 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 ...
In 2017, historian Stephen Kotkin wrote in The Wall Street Journal that 65 million people died prematurely under communist regimes according to demographers, and those deaths were a result of "mass deportations, forced labor camps and police-state terror" but mostly "from starvation as a result of its cruel projects of social engineering." [79 ...
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 ...
The Chairman Mao Memorial Hall (simplified Chinese: 毛主席纪念堂; traditional Chinese: 毛主席紀念堂; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Jìniàn Táng), also known as the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, is the final resting place of Mao Zedong, who became leader of the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War and held that position until ...
Chen, a former senior Chinese official and a top advisor to former CCP General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, stated that 43 million people died due to the famine. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] While Chen conducted a county-by-county review of deaths in five provinces and performed extrapolation, [ 41 ] economist Carl Riskin wrote that "Chen Yizi's methods of ...
The history of the People's Republic of China is often divided distinctly by historians into the Mao era and the post-Mao era. The country's Mao era lasted from the founding of the People's republic on 1 October 1949 [2] [3] to Deng Xiaoping's consolidation of power and policy reversal at the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress on