# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mao-zedong
# Generated: 2026-08-31T12:54:21.879Z

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name: "Mao Zedong"
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description: "He founded the People's Republic of China in 1949 and ruled it until his death in 1976. The campaigns he ordered — the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution — resulted in tens of millions of deaths, mainly through famine and political persecution. The attention never fades because the scale was vast and the country he remade is still here."
tagline: "1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)"
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birthDate: "1893-12-26"
deathDate: "1976-09-09"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born to a peasant family in Shaoshan, Hunan, on 26 December 1893, Mao Zedong was introduced to Marxism while working as a librarian at Peking University and became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921. He built the Chinese Red Army during the civil war, led the Long March to Yan'an in 1935, and became party leader. After Japan's surrender in 1945 the civil war resumed; he defeated the Nationalist government, which withdrew to Taiwan in 1949. From 1958 to 1962 he oversaw the Great Leap Forward, which aimed to collectivise agriculture and industrialise the country, followed by the Great Chinese Famine. In 1966 he launched the Cultural Revolution, marked by violent class struggle, destruction of historical artifacts, and his cult of personality. He died 9 September 1976, having transformed China from a semi-colony into a major world power at a cost counted in tens of millions of lives.