Timeline Special> 50th Anniversary of Sino-Tanzanian Diplomatic Relations> TimelineUPDATED: April-24-2014 Share Late Chinese President Mao Zedong meets Julius Nyere, Tanzania's first president, on March 25, 1974 (FILE)Useful Links: CHINAFRICAChina.org.cnCHINATODAYChina PictorialPeople's Daily ...
In January 1962, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) held a "Conference of the Seven Thousand" in Beijing. Conference chair Liu Shaoqi harshly criticized the Great Leap Forward, and by implication, Mao Zedong. Mao was pushed aside within the internal power structure of the CCP; moderate pragmatis...
The brilliant propaganda piece, “The Little Red Book: Quotations from Mao Zedong,” is published and widely distributed. Mao’s Cult of Personality grows (as witnessed by Mao pins, lighters, etc). Mao regroups his power base and launches theSocialist Education Movement—to “cleanse” China’...
Mao Zedong - Cultural Revolution, China, Communism: The movement that became known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an attempt by Mao to go beyond the party rectification campaigns—of which there had been many since 1942—and to
Mao Zedong - CCP Leader, Revolution, China: In September 1920 Mao became principal of the Lin Changsha primary school, and in October he organized a branch of the Socialist Youth League there. That winter he married Yang Kaihui, the daughter of his forme
Mao Zedong - Chinese Revolution, Communism, Chairman: Nevertheless, when the communists did take power in China, both Mao and Stalin had to make the best of the situation. In December 1949 Mao, now chairman of the People’s Republic of China—which he ha
Mao Zedong - Chinese Revolution, Communism, Chairman: Mao Zedong’s 22 years in the wilderness can be divided into four phases. The first of those is the initial three years when Mao and Zhu De, the commander in chief of the army, successfully developed
Long March, (1934–35), the 6,000-mile (10,000-km) historic trek of the Chinese communists, which resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from southeastern to northwestern China and in the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed
Hua had no strong ties either to theMaoistradicals or to Deng and the other pragmatists within the Communist Party. Although his unexpected rise to power had been seen as a compromise between the party factions led, respectively, by the Gang of Four and Deng Xiaoping, Hua ordered the arrest...
power amidst each one’s claims that it was the true representative of Maoist thought. The Red Guards’ increasing factionalism and their total disruption of industrial production and of Chinese urban life caused the government in 1967–68 to urge the Red Guards to retire into the countryside. ...