Mao Zedong -- A Great Man in China History

Hunan, Mao Zedong's Birth Place
There is a picture and the description about the Hunan province of China - Mao Zedong's birthplace found in this site. The general description about Mao's hometown, the school Mao went to, the history and the geographical location related to Mao's early life in this site is in good accuracy. Although, this site can be implemented as more colorful and rich information resource, the site presently is not contained a lot of information about Mao Zedong's early activities...

Mao Zedong's Private life
This site provided a Chinese version of the story about Mao's private life. The story was written by late Dr. Li, Zhishui, Mao's private physician for twenty-two years and published by Random House of USA. The story described many details about the last twenty-two years of Mao's private life, Mao's living style, Mao's habits, Mao's viewpoints to his colleagues and Mao's thought when he initiated the major events. Many of Mao activities are described in this book. Although, some of the details recorded in this book might not be one hundred percent accurate due to the lack of the physical evidence and were denied by some other Mao's bodyguards, this resource certainly can serve as a good reference retrieval source...

Mao Zedong' Biography
Mao Zedong's biography is found in this site. The biography recorded almost every detail about Mao's grownup history, Mao' early student life, the creation of the communist party, the three time marriages, Mao's military theories and his major publications. Mao's self-reliance and rural guerrilla strategies proved by the rapid growth and eventually in control of the entire Chinese mainland. The biography also described the Mao's later years activities, such as 1950s Hundreds Flowers movements, Great Leap Forward, Culture Revolution, etc.. The biography talked a little bit about Mao's fourth wife Jiang Qing. The biography is well written and reasonable accurate with rich information about the time and events in Mao's whole life...

Part II: Mao Zedong's Theory and Publications

Maoism Books
This site contained a list of Revolution Books from quotations from Chairman Mao, books written by Mao Zedong and Lenin to the books about revolutionary communist party etc. The subject is about Maoism and communism. The list of the books included the information of the authors, the publishers, the languages and the prices. Although this site only listed very limited works about and written by Mao Zedong, it still gave the users some of the most famous and important works of Maoism and Communism...

Mao Zedong's Thought Re-thought
This site provides a research article about Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought rethought. It discussed the goal of Mao Zedong Thought that is the Class Struggle. He subordinated economic policy to the dictated of massive class struggle. And his ignorance of economics coursed the economic collapse in China. During the post-Mao period, Deng Xiaoping reemphasized the issue of economic modernization and that became the basis of Deng Xiaoping's pragmatic reform policies. The article described the difference in political style between Mao and Deng; the difference of the role of Ideology, the Ideology and Socialist Man, the Ideology and Social Change in Mao's time and Deng's time. The article is devoted to the original facts of Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping's approach. The goal is clear and the article is well organized. It also included a reference part...

Mao Zedong's Poem
Besides a great leader of China, Mao Zedong is also a well-known Chinese Classic Poem writer. In this Chinese site, it included about forty most famous classic poems written by Mao Zedong with a introduction and evaluation of those poems as well. At the end of each poem, there is a part of brief notes and explanations. All the poems in this site were input in Chinese, it needed a special software such as UNIONWAY to read it. This site is useful for those who love Chinese Classic Poem and Mao Zedong's poems as well...

The Women in Mao Zedong's Poems
There are several Mao's poems which are specially devoted to Mao's lovers and female comrades. The Chinese article found in this site introduced several Mao's well known poems which devoted to Mao's first wife, Yang Kaihui such as "Buttefly Loves the Flower" and "Congradulate to the Groom". The article also introduced the Mao's another poem with the famous female author Ding Ling "The Angels in the RiverSide". The historic background, the inter-personal relationship and the feedback from the Mao's colleagues and Mao's current wife. This articles also have some degree coverage. However, this site didn't cover the Mao's other poems devoted to Mao's last wife, Jiang Qing, and this article has certain limitation in giving the stereo image to reader...

Part III: The Historic Events He Initiated and Participated

Establishing The People's Republic of China (1949)
This part talked about the founding of the People's Republic of China, the China entering the Korean War, the Land Reform, the Three Anti and Five Anti Movements, etc...

Transition To Socialism (1953-1957)
This part talked about the Transition to Socialism, the First Five-Year Plan, the centralization of party, the purge of Gao Gang and Rao Shushi, the Anti-Rightist Campaign, and the Double Hundred Campaign...

Great Leap Forward (1958-1960)
In this section, it talked about the cause of the Great Leap Forward, the People's Communes, the Second Five-Year Plan, and also describes the party conference at Lushan in 1959, the Sino-Soviet dispute of the late 1950s...

Readjustment And Recovery (1961-1965)
Here it presented the moderate leadership under Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun, Peng Zhen and others; the series of corrective measures initiated by them such as the reorganization of the commune system, etc; the economic recovery...

Cultural Revolution Decade (1966-1976)