Mao Zedong, the Chinese revolutionary and former Chairman of the Communist Party of China, was born in Shaoshan, Hunan, in 1893.
On December 26, 1893, the Mao family, rich farmers in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China, welcomed a son. They gave the kid the name Mao Zedong. The father of modern China is renowned not just for his impact on Chinese society and culture, but also for his global influence, which included political revolutionaries in the United States and the Western world in the 1960s and 1970s. He is usually regarded as one of the most significant communist theorists. He was also regarded as a remarkable poet. He is best known as the People's Republic of China's Founding Father, leading the country as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1949 to 1976.
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