Mao Zedong

• Also see: The Great Leap Forward | The Cultural Revolution | Chinese Communist Party | History of China

The Mahalo Top 7

1. Wikipedia: Mao Zedong
2. Oxford Reference: Mao Zedong
3. TIME: "Mao Zedong" (1998) 
4. BBC News: Historic Figures: Mao Zedong
5. Monthly Review: On the Role of Mao Zedong (2004)
6. The Guardian: Mao was Cruel - But Also Laid the Ground for Today's China (2007)
7. CNN Visions of China: Flawed Icon of China's Resurgence

Mao Zedong Background and Profiles

Revolutionary Leader

• Mahalo's Guide to The Long March
• Morning Sun: The Long March 
• Columbia University: Mao as the Leader of the Chinese Revolution

The Great Leap Forward

• Mahalo's Guide to The Great Leap Forward
• Asia Times: The Great Leap Forward Not All Bad (2004)
• Monthly Review: Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? (2006)
• New York Times: The Great Leap Backward (1997) 

Cultural Revolution

• Mahalo's Guide to the The Cultural Revolution
• Socialist Alternative, The Militant: The Cultural Revolution (1967)
• University of Maryland: The Cultural Revolution Decade
• New York Times: Hearts Still Scarred 40 Years After China's Upheaval (2006) 

Maoism

• Wikipedia: Maoism
• Socialist Worker: Maoism and Marxism (2001) 
• Monthly Review: What Maoism Has Contributed (2006)

Cult of Mao

• Al Jazeera: The Cult of Mao (2006) 
• The Guardian: Cult of the Chairman (2001)
• Wikipedia: Quotations from and Poetry of Mao Zedong
• China News Digest: Badges of Chairman Mao Zedong 
• The New York Times: A Mao Portrait on the Block Causes a Stir in Chat Rooms (2006) 

Mao Zedong Images and Media

• Sinohits: Chairman Mao Posters
• Google Image Search: Mao Zedong
• YouTube: Mao Zedong (Time 02:49)
• History Channel: Mao Zedong on the Cultural Revolution (Time 01:57) 

Mao Zedong's Writings

• Marx to Mao: Mao Zedong Internet Library
• Marxists Internet Archive: Mao Zedong Reference Archive
• Etext Archives: Maoist International Movement: Suggested Reading
• Art Bin: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
• Wikia: Selected Poems of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Books and Research

• Amazon.com: Mao Zedong (Life & Times) and The Private Life of Chairman Mao
• Borders: Mao Zedong (A Penguin Life)
• Powell's Books: Mao: The Unknown Story
• Barnes & Noble: Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine

Mao Zedong Academic Articles

• Australian National University: Politics at the Core (2000) (128KB) 
• Duke University: The Dialectical Mode: With Regard to Mao Zedong (2005) 
• UNESCO Bureau of Education: The Educational Doctrine of Mao Zedong (2001)(49.53KB) 
• Woodrow Wilson Center: Changes in Mao Zedong's Attitude toward the Indochina War, 1949-1973  and Mao’s Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador, 1953-55 (2002)(124.35KB) 

Mao Zedong Blogs and Message Boards

• Oliver Kamm: Famine? What famine? 
• Democratic Peace: Getting My Reestimate Of Mao's Democide Out
• Chairman Mao Zedong Badges & Ephemera Blog: Mao badges at Jinan Archives Information Network
• China History Forum: Mao Zedong and the Red Guards

Mao Zedong Timeline

• 1893: December 26, Mao Zedong is born in Hunan province
• 1911: Mao Zedong serves as a soldier during the Xinhai Revolution
• 1918: Mao Zedong graduates from First Provincial Normal School of Hunan
• 1919: Traveling with Yang Chanji, Mao visits Beijing and witnesses the May Fourth Movement
• 1919: Yang Changji helps Mao Zedong secure a position in the Peking University library
• 1920: Mao marries Yang Kaihui, in spite of his father's plans for an arranged marriage
• 1921: July 23, Mao attends the National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai
• 1925: After years of working in the party, Mao is named Propaganda Director of the Kuomintang
• 1927: Mao makes a report of peasant involvement during the Northern Expedition
• 1927: September 7, Mao leads the Autumn Harvest Uprising
• 1930: October, Yang Kaihui is executed by the Kuomintang
• 1931-1934: Mao helps to organize the Soviet Republic of China and began leading guerrilla units
• 1934: October, The Long March begins
• 1938: Mao marries Lan Ping
• 1942: While in Yan'an, Mao orchestrates Zheng Feng, and defeats of the Japanese and Kuomintang
• 1949: December 10, After a year of fighting, the Red Army forces the KMT to escape to Taiwan
• 1954-1959: Mao serves as Chairman of the People's Republic of China
• 1958: January, Mao launches the The Great Leap Forward
• 1962: January, President Liu Shaoqi denounces the Great Leap Forward policies
• 1966: In an attempt to recover control, Mao initiates The Cultural Revolution
• 1969: Mao declares the Cultural Revolution over, though most recognize true end after Mao's death
• 1976: September 9, Mao Zedong dies at 86 from complications of Parkinson's Disease

Mao Zedong Satire and Humor

• Danwei: David Moser on Mao Impersonators
• McSweeny's: China's Leadership, Explained. 
• Library of Congress: Mushrooming Cloud (1965)

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