Mao Tse-tung would certainly claim that his life was meaningless apart from the Chinese Communist Party. In attempting to portray the man, one can only trace the interaction between his ...

Michael Wood explores the origins and rise of the Chinese Communist Party, and the significance of Mao Zedong in the process. The Communists resisted the Nationalists by escaping to Yan'an on the ...

Mao Zedung was born to a farming family in the Hunan Province in 1893. After witnessing the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of China's awakening nationalism, he served briefly in the ...