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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.
Mao Anlong (1927–1931): son to Yang, died during the Chinese Civil War; Mao Anhong: son to He, left to Mao's younger brother Zetan and then to one of Zetan's guards when he went off to war, was never heard of again; Li Min (b. 1936): daughter to He, married to Kǒng Lìnghuá (孔令華), son Kǒng Jìníng (孔繼寧), daughter Kong Dongmei ...
Airliner shootdown By People's Liberation Army Air Force, 10 of the 19 on board died Sufan movement: 1955–1957 Nationwide 53,000 [40] [41] 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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 January 2025. 1927–1949 civil war in China For other uses, see Chinese Civil War (disambiguation). Chinese Civil War Part of the interwar period, the Chinese Communist Revolution and the Cold War Clockwise from top left: Communist troops at the Battle of Siping National Revolutionary Army troops ...
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [222] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [223] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll.
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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 ...