Mao Zedong
- Also see: The Great Leap Forward | The Cultural Revolution | Chinese Communist Party | History of China
The Mahalo Top 7
- Wikipedia: Mao Zedong
- Oxford Reference: Mao Zedong
- TIME: "Mao Zedong" (1998)
- BBC News: Historic Figures: Mao Zedong
- Monthly Review: On the Role of Mao Zedong (2004)
- The Guardian: Mao was Cruel - But Also Laid the Ground for Today's China (2007)
- CNN Visions of China: Flawed Icon of China's Resurgence
Mao Zedong Background and Profiles
Revolutionary Leader
- Mahalo's Guide to The Long March
- Morning Sun: The Long March
- Columbia University: Mao as the Leader of the Chinese Revolution
The Great Leap Forward
- Mahalo's Guide to The Great Leap Forward
- Asia Times: The Great Leap Forward Not All Bad (2004)
- Monthly Review: Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? (2006)
- New York Times: The Great Leap Backward (1997)
Cultural Revolution
- Mahalo's Guide to the The Cultural Revolution
- Socialist Alternative, The Militant: The Cultural Revolution (1967)
- University of Maryland: The Cultural Revolution Decade
- New York Times: Hearts Still Scarred 40 Years After China's Upheaval (2006)
Maoism
- Wikipedia: Maoism
- Socialist Worker: Maoism and Marxism (2001)
- Monthly Review: What Maoism Has Contributed (2006)
Cult of Mao
- Al Jazeera: The Cult of Mao (2006)
- The Guardian: Cult of the Chairman (2001)
- Wikipedia: Quotations from and Poetry of Mao Zedong
- China News Digest: Badges of Chairman Mao Zedong
- The New York Times: A Mao Portrait on the Block Causes a Stir in Chat Rooms (2006)
Mao Zedong Images and Media
- Sinohits: Chairman Mao Posters
- Google Image Search: Mao Zedong
- YouTube: Mao Zedong (Time 02:49)
- History Channel: Mao Zedong on the Cultural Revolution (Time 01:57)
Mao Zedong's Writings
- Marx to Mao: Mao Zedong Internet Library
- Marxists Internet Archive: Mao Zedong Reference Archive
- Etext Archives: Maoist International Movement: Suggested Reading
- Art Bin: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
- Wikia: Selected Poems of Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong Books and Research
- Amazon.com: Mao Zedong (Life & Times) and The Private Life of Chairman Mao
- Borders: Mao Zedong (A Penguin Life)
- Powell's Books: Mao: The Unknown Story
- Barnes & Noble: Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
Mao Zedong Academic Articles
- Australian National University: Politics at the Core (2000) (128KB)
- Duke University: The Dialectical Mode: With Regard to Mao Zedong (2005)
- UNESCO Bureau of Education: The Educational Doctrine of Mao Zedong (2001)(49.53KB)
- Woodrow Wilson Center: Changes in Mao Zedong's Attitude toward the Indochina War, 1949-1973
and Mao’s Conversations with the Soviet Ambassador, 1953-55 (2002)(124.35KB)
Mao Zedong Blogs and Message Boards
- Oliver Kamm: Famine? What famine?
- Democratic Peace: Getting My Reestimate Of Mao's Democide Out
- Chairman Mao Zedong Badges & Ephemera Blog: Mao badges at Jinan Archives Information Network
- China History Forum: Mao Zedong and the Red Guards
Mao Zedong Timeline
- 1893: December 26, Mao Zedong is born in Hunan province
- 1911: Mao Zedong serves as a soldier during the Xinhai Revolution
- 1918: Mao Zedong graduates from First Provincial Normal School of Hunan
- 1919: Traveling with Yang Chanji, Mao visits Beijing and witnesses the May Fourth Movement
- 1919: Yang Changji helps Mao Zedong secure a position in the Peking University library
- 1920: Mao marries Yang Kaihui, in spite of his father's plans for an arranged marriage
- 1921: July 23, Mao attends the National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai
- 1925: After years of working in the party, Mao is named Propaganda Director of the Kuomintang
- 1927: Mao makes a report of peasant involvement during the Northern Expedition
- 1927: September 7, Mao leads the Autumn Harvest Uprising
- 1930: October, Yang Kaihui is executed by the Kuomintang
- 1931-1934: Mao helps to organize the Soviet Republic of China and began leading guerrilla units
- 1934: October, The Long March begins
- 1938: Mao marries Lan Ping
- 1942: While in Yan'an, Mao orchestrates Zheng Feng, and defeats of the Japanese and Kuomintang
- 1949: December 10, After a year of fighting, the Red Army forces the KMT to escape to Taiwan
- 1954-1959: Mao serves as Chairman of the People's Republic of China
- 1958: January, Mao launches the The Great Leap Forward
- 1962: January, President Liu Shaoqi denounces the Great Leap Forward policies
- 1966: In an attempt to recover control, Mao initiates The Cultural Revolution
- 1969: Mao declares the Cultural Revolution over, though most recognize true end after Mao's death
- 1976: September 9, Mao Zedong dies at 86 from complications of Parkinson's Disease
Mao Zedong Satire and Humor
- Danwei: David Moser on Mao Impersonators
- McSweeny's: China's Leadership, Explained.
- Library of Congress: Mushrooming Cloud (1965)
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