Overview
Mao Zedong
Known For
Laogai: Prison Nation - Inside China's Ruling System
After the founding of the People's Republic of China in...
Taiwan: A Digital Democracy in China's Shadow
One Country, Two Systems? No Way! say the youth of...
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of...
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and...
The Man Who Defied Beijing
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness...
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth...
Biography
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (also known as Chairman Mao) was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China. His Marxist–Leninist theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism or Marxism-Leninism-Maoism. A controversial figure, Mao is regarded as one of the most important individuals in modern world history, and is also known as a theorist, military strategist, poet and visionary.