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Mao

Mao was born in 1893 the village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. well-to-do peasant in the village of Shaoshan in the Hunan province.Even so, Mao did not escape village life until the age of 17 when he went to middle school in Changsha, the capital of Hunan. That year, 1911, the revolution led by Dr Sun Yat-Sen overthrew the imperial government and Mao became caught up in the political instability. He left his studies at the school and after a period in a revolutionary army he began to study at a Hunan Provincial library on his own.
Instead of becoming a teacher at the completion of his course in 1918 he went to Peking and became a poorly paid assistant in the university library. There he found two allies, the library chief Li Ta-chao, and a professor of literature, Chen Tu-hsui, who were radical Marxists and later founded the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP.
In 1920 Mao became principal of a primary school in Changsha, where in his spare time he helped set up the Changsha branch......


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