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At the beginning of Mao Zedong’s reign, China was a poor, underdeveloped country with a shallow industrial base. Mao’s Great Leap Forward Campaign of 1958–1961 was intended to increase food ...

A month later, Xi Jinping, who had just turned 23, visited his father, who made him recite two of Mao Zedong’s famous speeches from memory: “On Contradiction” and “On Practice.” ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976): China. Mao, the founding father of the People's Republic of China, ... His paranoia and ruthlessness marked Stalin's reign as the leader of the Soviet Union.

'It's too early to say' Zhou Enlai's reply to a question on the benefits of the French Revolution is a reminder that Chinese do not view time in the same way we do. In terms of three millennia of ...