Read a biography about the life of mao zedong the chinese communist leader responsible for the disastrous policies including the 'great leap forward' and the 'cultural revolution'. Mao zedong (1893â€1976) was one of the most influential and controversial figures in chinese history, known for founding the people’s republic of china and leading the communist party of china (cpc) … Mao zedong, also transliterated as mao tse-tung, and commonly referred to as chairman mao (december 26, 1893 - september 9, 1976), was a chinese communist revolutionary and a founding …

On 1 october 1949, mao proclaimed the foundation of the prc, a one-party state controlled by the ccp.