Among them a Hunan peasant's son, Mao ZeDong.' PRESENTER ... PRESENTER:'And it was these desperate times which shaped Mao's life 'and his career as a revolutionary. PRESENTER:'Mao was born in ...

Shaoshan is about forty kilometers west of the county town of Xiangtan, Hunan Province. It is one of the seventy-two peaks of the majestic Mount Hengshan. According to legend, when King Yu was on ...

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 ...

The founder the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong, died on September 9 ... its stated pleasure at Switzerland’s early recognition of the People’s Republic in 1950, and its extolling ...