ºº Mao Tse Tung ºº

He was Born on december 26, 1893 in Shao-shan. he founded the People's Republic of China.

When the Chinese Communist Party was organized in Shangai in 1921, Mao was a founding member and leader os the Hunan branch. At this stage the party formed a United front with the Kuomintang, the party of the Republican flowers of Sun Yat-sen. Mao worked within the United front in Shanghai, Hunan and Canton, concentrating variously on labor organization, party organization, propaganda and the Peasan Movement Training Institute.

In 1927, Chian Kai-Shek, who had gained control of the Kuomintang, after the death of Sun Yat-sen, reversed that party's policy of cooperation with the communists. By the next year, when he had control of the Nationalists armies as well as the Nationalists government CHiang purged all communists from the movement. As a result, Mao was forced to flee the contryside. In the mountains af south China he stablished with Chu Teh a rural base defended by a guerrilla army, that was to make Mao the leader of the Chinise Communist Party.