Sunday, 15 April 2007

Zedong Mao -- A Great Man in China History

Zedong Mao, also well known as Chairman Mao, is a great man in human history. His dramatic personal life, his military talent, his artist poems, his political skill, his famous third world classification theory and his dictator's leading style in his later years have influenced generations of people. In order to fully understand the modern history of China, it is indispensable to study the father of the People's Republic of China --Mao's history. The following network resource list attempted to provide a tool for historic scholars, Asian study students and researchers. The list also tried to provide a sketch of Mao's life for people who are interested in and know a little bit of China, Mao and W.W.II, etc.. The network resource list included most of the information found in the internet about his personal life, his thought and theories, his poems and publications, his friends and enemies, the historic event he initiated and participated, his pictures and voices etc.. The network resource list also presented the summaries of the resources, and further information search sites as well. Some of links which the resources list followed are written in Chinese GB format, in order to read them, an installation of Chinese web viewer software is required.

Mao was born on the December 26, 1893, and died on the September 9, 1976 at the age of 83. He was the head of the Chinese Communist Party for forty-one years since the historic ZhunYi meeting (1935) during the Long March. He built the Red Army (Late, referred to the People's Liberation Army), took part in the anti-Japanese War and the civil war in China and finally chased the Nationalists to Taiwan and established the People's Republic of China. He was one of most influential people in the modern China history. The resources list is divided to seven parts, namely, Mao's personal life, Mao's theory and the publication, the major events Mao participated, the end of the Era of Mao Zedong and the miscellaneous, multimedia including the historic voice and the pictures, etc.. Finally, the future possible search sites are also listed for the references.

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