Mao Zedong: The Chairman of Communist China
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"But actually it was about to get a whole lot worse" really sums up this century in politics.
Pretty much yeah.
I mean, things are starting to get a bit better after 2020. Well.... aside from the whole Myanmar thing, terrorists attempting a coup in the US, China getting more aggressive with Taiwan.... I guess being better than 2020 is a low bar. At least the vaccine is starting to heal some stuff.
The mountian they carved the rapist and imperialists into is one of the most sacred sites to the Sioux nation, victims of genocide. The United States has violated every treaty it has ever signed with every nation of people here before the arrival of the settlers every single one
Funny you lot laugh whilst china is fast becoming number economy and will be number one in military. Keep laughing
@@user-ic5xq8oc9z Great post! The CCP has awarded you with social credit points. 🇨🇳 🇨🇳
“People would never go hungry again”
Well about that...
your profile picture fits the comment lol
He was right. After starving to death you aren't hungry any more.
I have never heard of him saying this.
This is not his style.
How did they know that Mao Zedong had said this? There was no Internet at that time, and Mao Zedong did not say this in all the videos.
Because dead people can't get hungry.
Pheebs80 Official Account 985 million Chinese people survived the cultural revolution
I asked my cat who was her favorite dictator. She said "Maooo."
That's clever!
Mine said Stalin I think it had speech impediment
Damn cats are always communists.
Hahahaha
I asked my dog. He said Mao Mao. I asked my cow, she said Maoooo. I asked my wife.... and now I'm single
"Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have been immortal. Had he died in 1966, he would still have been a great man but flawed. But he died in 1976. Alas, what can one say?"
~Chen Yun
“Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
@@bursegsardaukar I personally think he was kind of a villain to begin with.
@Butterballs Crawford Can't say I entirely disagree with you. I just wish they didn't take millions of people down with them.
George Washington accepts July 4th, 1776 because he was born 1732
Mao Zedong accepts October 1st, 1949 because he was born 1893 not better than Washington
George Washington died in 1799 last 18th century, his throat has infected
Correction: the government under the KMT was The Republic of China. The government under Mao Zedong was The Peoples' Republic of China.
Something was bugging me about that name but I couldn't put my finger on it. Thank you!
Yeah, that bothered me, too.
There are other things too. By 1911-1912, when the last Chinese monarch, the Qing dynasty was overthrown, the KMT, or nationalists didn't really take power. In fact they were more of the opposition, and was pretty much oppressed throughout the first years of the republic. The KMT, or nationalists, stems from supporters of Sun Yat-Sen, the 'father of revolutions' in China. However, when the revolution broke out, the royal court hired general Yuan Shi Kai, offering him as the PM and (de facto) command in chief to oppress suppression. His forces were relatively powerful, however before long he accepted a truce with revolutionaries. Per the deal, he forced the emperor (who was a little kid back then) and the entire royal family (who was de facto in power) to abdicate, and he would become the 'president of the republic'. However, he quickly turned what was meant to be a Washington style democracy (Gen. Yuan even claimed himself that he'd rather be George Washington than Napoleon Bonaparte) into a dictatorship, which the KMT opposed fiercely. His dictatorship soon collapsed, and himself dead at a fairly young age, however nobody was able to command his former subordinates, who became warlords that fought against each other to claim the power in Beijing (or Peking, at that time). In contrast, the KMT was nothing but a group of ideal-driven scholars and political scientists, which would be enough to gain power in a matured democratic system, such as Westminster or Washington, but was not even close to be able to command any forces and military leaders at that time.
It wasn't until in the later half of 1920s, when the KMT (nationalists) started to be able to command the armed powers. By then Dr. Sun has already passed away, and the leadership eventually fell into Chiang Kai Sheik, who used a combination of military operations, political negotiations, economic deals and 'special' law enforcement (many of which are espionage/secret polices) to finally able to control the majority of the places within ROC by late 1930s.
Yes, also the Chinese Civil War ended in 1949, not 1946.
Also, Mao never relinquished his position as the Chairman of the Communist Party. He held that position from 1949 to his death in 1976. He did however step down as Chairman of the People’s Republic of China and Central People’s Government (Politburo) in 1959 after the failure of the Great Leap Forward
when you triy wiping out pidgeons, but end up wiping out 2.5 million of your people instead.
Feels bad man
It was sparrows, not pigeons. I remember that very well because my history teacher was on the verge of tears when he told us about the four pests campaign. It's been six years since I've seen him but the unfortunate fate of the sparrows will haunt me forever.
Honest mistake
Thickpee I think it is more than 2.5million it was more like 45 million in total
Oops...
Naaa man what are you talking about we all now the far right is much more dangerous....
Sarcasm
When someone says "Mao Zedong" every thing is fine but when someone says
"Mao Zepenis" everyone loses their minds
Fun fact - his father was Jewish and his real name was Mao Zeschlong
@@PinkyJujubean 💀
lmao
zeweener
0:55 - Chapter 1 - Early life
4:30 - Chapter 2 - The rise of communism in china
7:35 - Chapter 3 - The long march & the 2nd sino japanese war
10:05 - Chapter 4 - The great leap forward
13:20 - Chapter 5 - The cultural revolution
16:30 - Chapter 6 - Later life & death
Thank you.
Big thanks dude
Lmao zedong
a comment that is known to cause wars
Just no
lmao dong
Had to do a double take at that but damn.
Lol
how dare you question the magical powers of the holy Mango
All hail holy mango!!!!
Long live Mangoism
I wonder what Bernie Sanders favorite fruit
everyone who says it is a fruit other then mango is a heretic and must die
all power to the uttermost holy mango
Looking at it now the holy mango is better than drinking bleach to down hydroxychloroquine
An example of ruthless tyrant and of "if hero lives long enough, he eventually becomes a villain"..
He became a villain at least by Christmas Day 1950, when Chinese troops intentionally invaded South Korea instead of stopping at the 38th Parallel. At that moment Communist China ceased to merely defend an ally and became an aggressor.
@@thunderbird1921 you kidding me. USA and the South pushed back and was aggressively at the doormat of china you muppet
@@thunderbird1921Christmas day? That's such a -power- _Mao-wer_ move... 🙄
@@thunderbird1921 well the U.S. troops did the exact same thing before china was majorly involved in the war.
I mean mangos are pretty damn good to be fair 😂
I ate a mango the other day and thought for a second that maybe Mao was onto something...
@@Biographics He didn't even like mangoes, that's why he gave them away
@@Biographics at 9.36 you say that mao win againt the kmt at 1946 even though the civil war hasnt even started it started at 1947 and end at 1949 honestly there is so much wrong here
@@Biographics 14:59 In 1968 the Minister of Pakistan brought a gift of 40 mangoes to Chairman Mao. The people of China had never eaten tropical fruit before, so this was a delicacy to them.
The people of China had never eaten tropical fruit before. Even the people in South Yunnan and Hainan Island? You know, the tropical regions of China11? This is more badgeography than badhistory, but I'm making this point dammit!
@@Biographics @Biographics 14:45 Instead of isolating his people from the outside world like other Communist nations, [Mao] encouraged globalization and open trade which is why China's economy eventually rebounded
This is... this is just so wrong. China's economy opened up to the world after Mao's death. The economic reforms occurred under Deng Xiaoping5 , one of Mao's major rivals. China had one of the poorest performing economies in East Asia by the time of Mao's death. What makes this even more jarring is the fact that just thirty seconds before this, the narrator was talking about the destruction of the Red Guards, who caused massive economic damage to the country
A problem in this video: Mao's age. He was born in 1893.
1:21 said Mao born in 1883.
4:16 said Mao was 18 in 1911, birth year correctly dated to 1893.
7:33 said he was 48 in 1931, got him 10 yrs older again.
Dang
Oof
Thx I thought I was going crazy
Whistler stay fucking up
October 10, 2020 is China national day
U disrespect chairman mao? 10 yrs steel production!
James Moffat a Soviet would only dream of getting such a lenient punishment for disrespecting Stalin
And 80 million people dead!
Look for my comment where I went in depth on backyard furnaces (or google it). It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so tragic. Farmers being forced to make pig iron that was quite literally useless, but because they weren’t making food, something they knew how to do, millions starved. For, again, quite literally no reason.
and "Panda Express" for lunch. lol
@@uzaiyaro did they get punished for the failed crops production on top of it. They should of magically kept up crop yields and tripled iron production.
"See these herpes? Chairman Mao gave me these herpes."
Oh yeah? what about COVID?
@@Sor9ry426 well I have covid rn so I’ll give you that, is that ok?
You should do one for Zhou Enlai, in all the chaos and tubulence of Mao and Jiang Qing’s rule, Zhou was a rationale man, an unspoken hero and renown diplomat that saved what he could of the old China and shielded people who were being hunted down by the rogue Red Guards - people like Madame Sun, Deng Xiaoping, and Pu Yi. He saved what he could of the Forbidden Palace and the Potala Palace in Tibet, royal tombs and Buddhist temples throughout the country.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions"
Void Echo paved with good mangoes
Communism in a nutshell really, the tyrannical rule and various horrors inflicted upon countless lower class people in the pursuit of creating a utopia for "The Workers" filled with liberty and luxury for all.
@@RipOffProductionsLLC The same logic could also be applied to Capitalism.With the development of the capitalism in the late 18th century and early 19th century , came the slave trade,child labor,colonialism.
an anonymous person how do you explain that stuff existing for thousands of years prior to capitalism? Lol
Come on dude..
The technological
Advancements brought on by capitalism made slavery inefficient. The North’s economy was greatly outdoing the south’s. Competition alone would have collapsed slavery in the south given a couple more decades.
Slavery and child labor exists for thousands of years:
You: MuST bE cUZ oF CaPitaLism
Not to mention slavery violates the number one rule of capitalism.. property rights, your body and fruits of your labor being the number one property right.
Like it or not the fact it capitalism is a series of voluntary exchanges
an anonymous person also colonialism cannot be blamed on capitalism either as the early settlers collectively owned the means of production..
However once that failed and people were starving they brought in privatization.
This is called “tragedy of the commons”
You might have heard of it.
Going back to capitalism being about property rights, taking people’s property thru force also violates the number one rule of capitalism
I wish they had this type of documentaries in high school. It would have made learning history a lot easier! Sometimes it's only necessary to learn about the highlights of what happened in history than knowing the full monty of everything.
With these kinds of documentaries, he gets right to the point and doesn't bore the audience of useless information.
In my opinion, I think schools need to adopt this kind of teaching for this kind of history lessons.
8:14 "He promised them they would never go hungry, again." Well, that backfired.
Who is hungry in China now but I can see so many people in America homeless
you have to understand that china wasn't industrialized enough to deal with such natural disasters, the great leap forward ended up being a good thing, all the negative things that happened then already were happening before, it may have been a bit worse for some people for a while, but it definitely got better. What else were they supposed to do? Not attempt to industrialize?
@@emiletard4201 They could’ve tried not wrecking ecosystems because the Dear Leader lacked knowledge of biology and agriculture. They could’ve tried prioritizing science over ideology. That’s what Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping did. The Great Leap Forward “ended up being a good thing” as you say because those two dudes worked their asses off the undo or mitigate the damage Mao caused.
@@sudhangshubasak9672 yet chinese people go to america and settle down.
@@sudhangshubasak9672 millions of people
As a historian of China, there are so many inaccuracies in this video it's quite misleading. I know simplifications are necessary to boil things down for a video, but this smacks of lazy research. I'm quite disappointed.
A couple of examples:
"He convinced a group of students to seek out anyone who was speaking out against the communist party." The way it is described, it sounds like Mao met with students to establish the Red Guards, but in actuality, the red guards began among high school students at the Tsing Hua University Affiliated Middle School quite spontaneously and without central direction. Mao certainly encouraged it, but he wasn't involved in its beginnings. Furthermore, the Red Guards actually targeted the communist party or as they saw it "traitors" within the Communist Party, referring to them as "capitalist roaders" (走资路) and "Soviet Revisionist" (苏修). By 1968, the Red Guards had devolved into basically street gangs fighting amongst themselves in factional violence, and eventually, they started attacking military installations, looking for "Soviet Revisionist" within the military. That led to their quick suppression by the military. Mao supported the Red Guard's attack on the party, because he was sidelined by the party after the failure of the Great Leap Forward but still maintained an important spiritual role in the nation, and he used the Red Guard to attack his enemies in the party. (Source: Roderick MacFarquhar, "Mao's Last Revolution")
"The leader of the KMT, Chiang Kai-shek, had to swallow his pride and ask the Communist Party for their help. Their Red Army was growing in numbers. They defended China in what is known as the Hundred Regiments Offensive." That's a heck of a mischaracterization. Chiang Kai-shek was forced at gunpoint by mutinying officers to establish a truce with the Communist in 1936. The Communist was actually at their weakest point after being chased across China by KMT forces. However, Chiang's insistence of wiping out the Communist while ignoring the Japanese invasion of Manchuria made Chiang highly unpopular. Eventually, his officers, particularly the former Manchurian warlord Zhang Xueliang, knew that destroying the communist would exacerbate national division at a time when unity was needed to face the Japanese, so they took Chiang hostage in December 1936 to negotiate a back-channel truce. On top of that, the Red Army was at its lowest point in 1936. It didn't start growing until the war started to break out, and the Red Army did very little to the Japanese compared to the nationalist. They primarily focused on guerilla campaigns in the northern countryside of questionable effectiveness. The Hundred Regiments campaign in 1940 was the CCP's only real conventional offensive in the war, but it was pretty minor. Involving only about 80,000 men. It largely just caused a minor inconvenience for the Japanese Imperial Army, killing only 12,000 Japanese troops and causing infrastructure damage that the Japanese were able to recover from in a few months. While it would be the CCP's greatest victory in the war, it was hardly impressive in the broader scheme of things. The nationalist did far more on a yearly basis. The CCP was able, however, to use the Hundred Regiments Campaign as a great propaganda tool and often portray themselves to this day as the (most) active resistors to the Japanese invasion. The reality was more complicated. The CCP was poorly equipped, smaller, and in a rural hinterland that the Japanese did not care for as much. This video makes it sound like the CCP came in to save the day, but honestly, no one really saved the day, and the KMT contributed far more to the war effort, in part because it had the resources to and was the main target of the Japanese. (Source: Rana Mitter, "Forgotten Ally: China's World War II, 1937-1945")
Bro I'm glad you said something. Video was so whack I could even finish it
Thanks for posting. I turned the sound off and read what you’d written. So much about this channel isn’t so much as dumbed down, rather it’s sloppy shorthand of important historical figures and events.
@jonny the boy he's said a ton of times he can't pronounce Chinese well and apologizes for it
@Harrison Tsoi Ah yes, the classical real world war strategy of turtling up, building factories and Spanish Feitoria for an infinite resource trickle while producing troops out of thin air by hitting the build unit button.
What part of 'The communists were at their weakest point' is hard for people to understand? The Japanese invasion came post-long march, meaning at this point they had been nearly crushed by the nationalists and barely avoided total defeat via a harrowing exodus that itself had a great toll on them. The communist and nationalist sides of China both did what they could at the given time and means they had, for the Nationalists this meant trading distance for time and retreating across the vast stretches of territory while preparing for the counterattack, which was a very reasonable strategy for a self-serving political entity. But this left the Nation's people largely subject to Japanese occupation, and it was the communists that taught and organized this population to fight back. While the effects of the communists was miniscule on the open battles, the toll in attrition got to the Japanese to the point of their Sanku Saikaku policy - which is basically to wipe out civilians and scorch homesteads to deny communists the ability to hide behind their lines. Needless to say, this gave the populace a clear villain and a clear protector after the Nationalists have long left them to ensure their own survival.
The narrative that the communist did nothing is not only dishonest, but counter to it's own survival. The people who later became the red army that beat back the Nationalists didn't spawn out of the void because even communists don't run on the physics of StarCraft, they joined who they saw fighting for them.
@SirLGM While there are no factual faults in your statements off the top of my head, I don't feel you've really addressed my point if that was the intent here. The communist Chinese that won that civil war were still the communist Chinese, the few people holed up in Shaanxi post-exodus weren't suddenly joined by a Russian horde of millions that portaled into the land-locked mountains, distracting the Japanese would only help the Nationalists if, as the poster I've replied to implied, only the Nationalists fought them ('yeah the communists never fought the Japanese, only the Nationalists did, but distracting the Japanese totally only frees up the commies'), and the Japanese wouldn't instate policies and doctrines aimed against communists and their tactics if they weren't in the fight. Even post WW II, Nationalists held a clear advantage in equipment, selling them to the other side in some instances doesn't even lead to parity.
Also, apologies if I've misunderstood you in some way.
edit: 'but distracting the Japanese totally frees up the Nationalists=>commies'
I wouldn't call this video biased, but there are so many inaccuracies. The CHinese Civil War ended in 1949, it restarted in 1946 after WWII.
Oct 1 2019, next year marks the 70th anniversary of the PRC, just a few years short of the Soviet Union. How much longer it will last no one can say. The PRC has found a way to leverage great economic growth in a totalitarian system, which the USSR could not.
We will never know what would have happened if the nationalists won. Maybe they would kill more people (via killing the communists)
蒋公圣明！
coweatsman Seriously man?
@@shenghan9385 Why would you type ur name in English?
1. From what I've read, even Nikita Khrushchev was shocked at how the Great Leap Forward failed.
2. The Cultural Revolution; brutal but not as brutal as Pol Pot's regime
@Ben Louis It's so poor that the current king refused to have a coronation in order to save money.
Nikita Kruschev stabbed China in the back by pulling out all the Soviet engineers who were helping China build up its industry - why would he be "shocked" when exactly what he wanted to happen happened? Kruschev wanted China to fail because of the Sino-Soviet split.
@@glebperch5725 Mao made a common mistake of that times. He belived that ordinary peasen/workercan be a Jack of all trades. Their home-made steel was laughable.
And numbers of rice and other crops were inflated by local officials because of fear of death if quotas weren't met.
@@sikecar534 and they started hiding crops. And productivity went down. If everyone gets what they need why work my dick off if I'm not going to get rich off it. Communism will never work for that one reason
even the worst time during Great Leap Forward and culture revolution .the situation is much better than 1911-1945 under kmt rule.....my fathers great father was living during that periods.
Stalin: if Chairman Mao calls, I'm not in!
funnie funnie,, u shude be a comedien, I lol leik crazey
Splitting hairs here, but balance, "going with the flow" and yin and yang are all Daoist concepts. Confucianism talks more about fulfilling one's station in life, and how to live a moral life within that role.
I was looking for that comment 😂😂 cheers mat3
Would you please do a biography on Chiang Kai-shek? It would be really interesting to learn more about him
He's just a failure puppet to the west not like Mao.
He is a really interesting figure during this time. And yes, there are some really good books out there on him. But....a video would be fun the listen to.
maybe do a bio on Sun Yat-Sen
@@kalvinlebsack2351 First--You shouldn't swear. Second--You shouldn't tell someone to "just read a book" when they make a valid request for more information about a particular person from a particular source from which we can all benefit. I rest my case.
Chiang is like Xi
That is one great transition from info to advertisements
Also, there are some other interesting facts worthy of mentioning. It was during his job as a librarian at Peking University did Chairman Mao meet his first wife, Yang Kaihui. Together they had three sons, two of them survived. Unfortunately Ms.Yang was murdered after refusing to collaborate with the Nationalist government on stuff regarding his husband. That caused their children to be orphaned on the streets, which largely caused the death of their youngest son and the permanent mental disability for the second son. Also it was during the 'Long March' when Mao was eventually established as the supreme leader of CCP, although he has been active and famous from the founding of CCP.
Furthermore, during the first collaboration (with Nationalists, before the nationalist revolution or unification war), Mao was conceived higher by Dr. Sun as well as other KMT leaders than Chiang, while Chiang received more recognition from Stalin, the Internationale and other earlier communist leaders than Mao. Which means, they were bosses of each other in the party they fought against later, respectively. One more, when the Shanghai incident broke out, some of Mao's payrolls hadn't been realized by the KMT government yet. So here goes the joke, 'don't mess with your employee's payrolls, otherwise you'll cost your entire REGIME!'
Last but not least, Mao's relation with Stalin was... Far from a pleasant one. Under the Tito video some pointed out that Tito was the only one within the communist world to be able to go against Stalin (or any top brass Soviet leader in general) and being able to survive. Mao pretty much achieved that too. Later under Berzhnev's regime (the one who drove tanks into Prague), they went against each other to a point where USSR nuke-threated China.
Overall great video! I personally think it's one of the least biased videos about Mr. Mao, showing adequately of both sides of his legacy. And it's interesting that you point out the fact that he was probably the most international-phllic communist leaders. He tried to maintain a normal relationship even with the western bloc, only damaged during Korean War. Not to mention he set up the 'third world policy' for China. (Although it's debatable in modern China on that part, and it sounds like a counterattack for Truman's containment doctrine.)
Yeah a very moderate video...about a bloodthirsty psychopath.
“But maybe a cocktail”
The kowtowing to your sponsors is admirable-brilliant segue
I too feel that way about mangoes.
If anyone who wants to know more about his Great Famine. I highly recommend you read Zhou Xun's Forrgoten Voices. Nearly as many people died in that disaster. Than in the entirety of World War 2.
@Gipsy Danger “Communism is a disease of the heart, the Japanese are but a disease of the skin” - Chiang Kai Shek
Taught unironically in Communist schools that portray Chiang Kai-shek as a villain. But when you look at the death tolls from Mao's Great Leap Forward, an estimated 55.6 million of his own people, Chiang turned out to be absolutely right.
@Immolation Liquidation excellent
@@DanimoroZ So what, because of Pearl Harbor you want to laugh your ass off at America as well?
na”’ was in our newspapers frequently in the 1950s, which is telling, as it assumes you have to own something before you can lose it. Regarding deaths, look up the increase in life expectancy from 1950 until 1978 - it rose dramatically from Mao’s reforms, so he saved lives almost radically. If you think about it you have to respect for China successfully fending of western imperialism prior to 1948, a profoundly difficult achievement. Look at the result of the other major regions that failed in this regard (Africa, India, even aboriginal Australia, etc). Respect to Mao and vast bulk of the ordinary population for protecting China from outside interference. Mao also did the forgotten but crucial work of rural health development programmes saving 100 million lives and modernizing architecture which set the conditions to make the industrialisation that followed being possible. Life span increased dramatically, rights of females and literacy increased from 10% to 90% under Mao. Rather than cherry picking setbacks give respect where respect is due.
“Great Leap Forward - right into a pitfall.”
I enjoyed the video AND the sponsorship drink making! Also, the face you made during the first sip. Love your videos, I've been binge watching for 3 days now. You guys work hard to make quality content and it is very appreciated.
as a chinese myself,
I just not gonna say anything, since people will get triggered by politics no matter what
Ikr Chinese people are targeted for our political beliefs, If we said anything, Some American Patriot will attack us...
What did you wanna say though I'm genuinely interested
I'm a "laowai" in China. Don't dare say anything political here because of all the stupid Ai Guo Ren. Works both ways, don't play the eternal victim
Stand and fight or do ABChinese got to do it for you... time and time again. Very well.
xtw zyz- maybe because in China, you will get threatened by CPC members if you do say anything. I speak from experience...
Demands school to listen to their ideas
Doesn't let his people share their ideas
LMao
His first year in control he actually did (year of a thousand blooming flowers) but he kept notes and after a year he purged anyone who expressed views he didn’t like.
Sounds like modern day university.
@@weadon44 Back to 1950, there were still thousands of spies from KMT and CAI around China. What would you do then?
Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was both a product and a part of the revolutionary change in 20th-century China. He was born December 26, 1893, in the small village of Shaoshan in Hunan province. Although he described his father as a "rich peasant," the family clearly had to work hard for a living.
From an early age, Mao was a voracious reader. He particularly liked popular historical novels concerning rebellions and unconventional military heroes. At age thirteen, after five years of education in the local primary school, he was forced by his father to leave school and return to the farm. Mao continued to study on his own and at age sixteen left home to complete his elementary school training in the Hunanese capital of Changsha.
It was here that Mao began to experience the powerful revolutionary waves engulfing Chinese society. He read the works of nationalist reformers such as Kang Yuwei (Kang You-wei). He developed an admiration for the strong emperors in earlier periods of Chinese history and for certain Western statesmen including George Washington. Mao watched as China's last dynasty crumbled.
Mao's career in the army was brief and uneventful. From 1913 until 1918 he was in the First Hunan Normal School. His reminiscences indicate that he took himself and his convictions seriously.
In 1918 Mao graduated from Normal School and traveled to Beijing. There he became caught up in the intellectual and political activity of the May Fourth Movement.** He received a minor post at the Beijing University Library where he was exposed to Dean Chen Duxiu (Ch'en Tu-hsiu) and Librarian Li Dazhao (Li Ta-chao), who later became founders of the Chinese Communist Party.
Moving between Changsha and Shanghai in 1919-1920, Mao picked up odd jobs but devoted his energies to reading, writing, and talking about revolution. By 1920 he described himself as "a Marxist in theory and to some extent in action," and in July 1921 he was one of the small group that founded the Chinese Communist Party.
Mao became a major participant in the United Front. Of great importance to his later career was his appointment as head of the KMT (Kuomintang, or Nationalist Party) Peasant Movement Training Institute. His work at the Institute, which included ideological and organizational instruction for peasant leaders, opened his eyes to the revolutionary potential of the Chinese peasantry.
In 1921 Mao married Yang Kaihui (Yang K'ai-hui), the daughter of one of his mentors at Beijing University. She was later executed by the Kuomintang in 1930. However, in 1928 Mao had begun to live with a young girl of eighteen, He Zizhen (Ho Tsu-chen). Over the next nine years they had five children. In 1937 he divorced He and married Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing).
Nineteen twenty-seven was a cataclysmic year for everyone involved in the Chinese Revolution. After the April Shanghai coup, Mao and his Communist cohorts were involved in the futile uprisings in southern China. This experience led to a lifelong distrust of Soviet advice and intentions, a deep animosity toward Chiang Kaishek and the Nationalists, and a search for new approaches to a mass-based revolution.
Mao retreated with a small band of followers to Jinggangshan (Chingkangshan), a mountainous, forested region in the southeastern province of Jiangxi (Kiangsi). It was here he faced the reality of rural revolution.
** The May Fourth Movement was a cultural and intellectual awakening that started as a student movement and spread to a larger group of Chinese, bringing significant social change in urban China.
From Focus on Asian Studies, vol. IV, no. 1, Fall 1984 (New York: The Asia Society). © 1984 The Asia Society. Reprinted with permission.
Leader of the Chinese Revolution
Mao Zedong was one of the historic figures of the twentieth century. A founder of the CCP (Communist Party), he played a major role in the establishment of the Red Army and the development of a defensible base area in Jiangxi province during the late 1920s and early 1930s. He consolidated his rule over the Party in the years after the Long March and directed overall strategy during the Sino-Japanese War and the civil war. He formally assumed the post of Party Chairman in 1945. His reliance on the peasantry (a major departure from prevailing Soviet doctrine) and dependence on guerrilla warfare in the revolution were essential to the Communist triumph in China.
Following the establishment of the PRC (People's Republic of China) in 1949, Mao was responsible for many of the political initiatives that transformed the face of China. These included land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the spread of medical services. In particular, this leader of the revolution remained alert to what he saw to be new forms of oppression and sensitive to the interests of the oppressed. In 1958 he advocated a self-reliant "Great Leap Forward" campaign in rural development. The failure of the Leap led Mao to turn many responsibilities over to other leaders (Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, etc.) and to withdraw from active decision making.
During the early 1960s, Mao continued his restless challenge of what he perceived as new forms of domination (in his words, "revisionism," or "capitalist restoration"). In foreign policy he led China's divorce from the Soviet Union. Domestically, he became increasingly wary of his subordinates' approach to development, fearing that it was fostering deep social and political inequalities. When Liu, Deng, and others seemed to be ignoring his call to "never forget class struggle," Mao in 1966 initiated the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," exploiting discontent among some students (the "Red Guards") and others. The Cultural Revolution was successful in removing many who opposed his policies but led to serious disorder, forcing Mao to call in the military to restore order in 1967.
In 1969 Mao designated Defense Minister Lin Biao, a Cultural Revolution ally, as his heir apparent. But Mao came to have doubts about Lin and soon challenged him politically. One of the issues of debate was the opening to the United States, advocated by Mao and Zhou Enlai as a counter to the Soviet Union. In 1971 Lin was killed in a plane crash while fleeing China after an alleged assassination attempt on Mao.
Until his death, a failing Mao refereed a struggle between those who benefited from the Cultural Revolution and defended its policies, and rehabilitated veterans who believed that the Cultural Revolution had done China serious harm. It seemed for a while that the veterans, led by Deng Xiaoping, had won the day. But the radicals, either by manipulating Mao or by appealing to his basic instincts, regained momentum after Zhou Enlai's death in January 1976. Mao chose the more centrist Hua Guofeng to carry on his vision. Four weeks after Mao's death, Hua led the arrest of major radical figures, four of whom - Zhang Chunqiao, Jiang Qing, Wang Hongwen, and Yao Wenyuan - were dubbed a "gang."
The post-Mao era has seen a reversal of much that Mao stood for and the eclipse of many individuals, living and dead, that he stood behind. His leadership, especially the Cultural Revolution initiative, has been hotly debated. In June 1981 the Party Central Committee approved a resolution that criticized Mao's rule after 1958, but affirmed his place as a great leader and ideologist of the Chinese Communist revolution.
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The people’s republic wasn’t created in 1911, that was the republic, the people’s republic was formed after/during Mao’s revolution. This has been mentioned a million times already but you really need to fix this video
You do a good job of addressing the good and bad of many of these figures that are often demonized, that's not to say you don't show their evil side but rather you address all aspects of their life
"balancing energy", "going with the flow", "yin and yang" are taoist concepts practiced by lao tsu and taoists, not confucius. taoism and confucianism were constantly at odds with each other philosophically, because the former stresses lack of order and purpose, whereas the latter places everything within a relative hierarchy.
The cocktail tutorial at the end was just as entertaining as the rest of the video. Great work!
I did not expect Simon's voice to sound so different off set! Loved the enthusiastic shaking of the cobbler lol
You should do one on Pol Pot.
Haha you said pot
I would like to cook those commie bastards in a hot pot.
Yay free helicopter rides
@@shenghan9385 pol pot was funded and propped up by the cia and the communist vietnamese were the ones who kicked his ass and liberated Cambodia 👉😌👉
@K A . You are blinded by your radicalized view of the world. Support of the Khmer Rouge by the USA was in place from 1975 - 1991 with its height of support in 1989 with a small cash amount of $13 million. The USA worked WITH china to keep the Khmer Rouge in power. It's not a "REEEE, MUH LIBRULS LUV COMUNIZTS"
Zedong to poor Chinese people(quote read by Simon).....
"Communism will mean that you'll never go hungry again". Really, Mao.... is that right?
Simon has the nicest commentators voice anywhere on RUclips. Could listen to him all day.
Love how carefree you are outside work. Love all your channels
Love your cocktail skills dude ! Seriously love how you do your ads it’s hilarious but cool too.
Smooth Shaker and Spoon plug transition 👍
1 mistake: you say that farmers were forced to give up their lands, but failed to mention that 98% of the people were too poor to own land. There were landowners (2%) and people who worked their lands for peanuts. So the first step of the revolution was actually welcomed by most people, basically, every one who wasn't rich. It was later that Mao screwed up.
Nothing says equal like equally dead.
Mao did nothing wrong plus capitalism starves 8 million a year bootlicker
YEET
@@seasalt489 lmao supporting Mao is the very definition of a bootlicker
You got a couple dates wrong: Mao was born in 1893, and the Communist takeover happened in 1949.
What will always disturb me most about Maoist China is a simple phrase I heard once, an idea that I find not just silly and absurd but wholly loathsome,
*_"history has no meaning."_*
Mao was his own man. He rejected parts of Confucianism, then ditched the Soviet war doctrine and came up with his own
idk how u do it but i watched the advertisment part with just as much enthusiasm as the video lmfao. good on u simon
Can you do one on Xi Jinping?
You mean Winnie the Pooh?
So Simon.... Where's that Xi Jinping video?
@@Debre. I was about to say, theres a whole book series and cartoon series about him already
@@Debre. Saying that will literally get you thrown in prison in China lmao. They banned all Winnie the Pooh searches on the internet.
@@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath
That's exactly why I said it.
I like how a video about a communist leader has capitalism right at the start
History of communism in one sentence: "People hopped for a better future, but they where actually wrong"
Tell that to China today.
@@SW-lx2pf China is basically a capitalist country today
@@SW-lx2pf Where people get to be run over by tanks, or have the doors to their homes welded shut. Keep trying I'm sure those social credit points your earning will be well spent.
I’ve been waiting for this ever since you made the Joseph Stalin Biography.
Your Shaker skills are revolutionary in itself.!!
Wonder if he went up to the ladies with bad pick up lines like:
Mao: Do you want Z?
Her: Z?
Mao: Zedong. Mao (pointing at his dong) Zedong.
As someone who speaks Chinese and non-American English this took me some time to get lol
Great way of getting a free drink too if he's in a bar. Always keep your mouth open when you're about to get a drink thrown at your face.
@@gkm2928 lol
I adore learning about leaders no matter how controversial. My personal favorites: Simon Bolivar, Napoleon, and Machiavelli. No matter how bad they are. Or how good, their way of thinking is amazing. Since I also want to be a leader, I like studying them. So what I can learn about their strategies. Most of them read books. That’s already an improvement.
@@riorio745 I’d like to see for myself. I want to be governor of my home Puerto Rico but I want to bring massive change, first off change the horribly corrupt political parties
Do Josip Broz Tito next please, he is the most interesting socialist leader to cover.
Only in Serbia 81% of people said it was all better under Tito lol
@ls7orBust no they didnt
ls7orBust you can thank Obama and Cameron for that. As Hitlery said: “We came, we saw, he died!”
ls7orBust you’re forgetting Blair
+SoyuzNkk That's because Putin took over
I love how the people in this comment section are either reactionaries, or Tankies.
Mao did nothing wrong
As an anarchist, Mao is a meme.
tankies at it again
@@eltiggy7031 anarchists have never done a good socialism. Stay mad
@@benjibenj7406 All socialists/communists are brainlets.
When you mix up the teachings of daosim with the teachings of Confucius. I GUESS IT JUST HAPPENS DISPITE THE FACT THAT THESE PHILOSOPHIES HAVE BEEN AT ODDS WITH EACHOTHER FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS
These videos are getting better and better. Lots of refreshing jokes that dont get old.
Chairman LMao, the guy who didn't know basic economics, basic biology, accidentally killed 50 Million farmerr bois, and had luscious hair (Google "Young Mao").
Well as long as he had luscious hair... He gets a pass.
AngRepublika _ mao means hair in chinese lol
毛澤東必須快速的使中國工業化，因為敵人太多了。
Shane Gallagher some estimates are even higher, sadly
@Shane Gallagher 50 million with a population that big isn't that far fetched
I'd love an episode on Gojong of Korea with some Korean history tied into it like this episode. Keep up the good work, I can't stop watching your videos haha :)
Ok, the last 4 minutes of this video was the absolute BEST! This guy is precious :)
I love that transition to cocktails bit lol.
"...about creating a new society, there is a huge difference between theory, and actually doing something in real life..."
Lmao love how you transitioned to the ad at the end of the video
Cooking with Simon... New segment 👍 🔥
I wish you were able to make a mango drink instead, and I honestly loved that part with the ad. It felt more like you were talking directly to me while at your table sipping on some martinis or something lmao
It's amazing how people talk of him understanding and some kind of respect. Gee, I wonder how well that would go over talking about Hitler in such a way...
@Brocialist Party of America
Capitalism and the Market Socialist policies of Deng Xiaoping did it.
Not the old military fool that caused his country to split in 2 and led to East Asia being Cucked by Western Culture.
+Brocialist Party of America So Mao, who killed 78 million people, is good? I don't like Pinochet, the U.S government once did, but Mao is evil.
First of all, right-wingers are anti-authoritarian. Second, I'm a moderate left wing. Third, imperialism led to the massacres in africa, not capitalism. Ok, you actually need to know what capitalism is. Saying that anyone a capitalist nation kills is caused by capitalism is like saying that an Asian man committed a murder because he was Asian, no correlation.
+Brocialist Party of America What do you mean Mao didn't like himself, have you heard of the Cultural Revolution? Are you even Chinese-American? Mao's industrialization program only killed people, that's why China's economy was horrible during his rule, only Deng was able to fix China's economy.
So few people in the 11 months this has been out has commented on Simon's Shaker & Spoon advertisement...
I do not know why it is so comical to me, maybe the fact of the 40 million people died from starvation being followed by a cocktail ad.
It took a while to find a comment on his advertisement 😅😅
Hey Biographics, love your channel. Please create a biographics on Deng Xioping
The best sponsor segue ever!
Thank you so much for making this video. I always wanted to know more about Mao Zedong.
If there is an afterlife, I hope Chairman Mao spends all of time wading in the sea of blood he spilled. Forever starving and thirsty, his only relief from drowning being islands made of the pungent corpses of those he butchered. A Tartarus eternal for the gravest murderer in the history of mankind!
This comment is full of hate and I love it
yo. loved the info on mao zedong but the drink mixing was fun at the end looked so delicious and fun youre
so handsome -swoon- love yur vids
I really liked the biography, but I also really enjoyed that cocktail making segment
3:26 Are we just going to ignore they are dressed as cats?
Lmao Mao 🐈
4:31 One small but important correction: The Kuomintang never ruled all of China and didn't become very remarkable until 1928. From 1911, China was split up between rivalling factions ruled by regional warlords who were fighting each other for power. In 1925, the Kuomintang, which had previously been outlawed by the warlords, started the Northern Expedition, and with help from the Soviet Union and the recently founded Chinese Communist Party, the Kuomintang gained control over half of China extending from Guangdong and Guangxi in the south to Beijing in the north.
When Stalin says you’re out of control, then you really have to worry.
Very interesting _ Thanks.
I'm binge-watching these. I NEED MORE!
It was Deng XiaoPing that change the modern China, not Mao.
Mao was a great fighter but a terrible manager cause of his religious adherence to communism. China though would not be united and politically powerful without him. Deng was a pragmatist and showed how a true leader should govern, ie by doing what works.
Deng is XiaoPing the real change maker for China. Mao is a militant leader but not a political one. He only changed mainland Chinas flag. That’s it.
No. Mao established the foundation and get many dirty works done.
it’s easy to say“that’s it”. The difficulty Mao faced was far bigger than Deng. Even today ,we respect Mao very much. In our mind,Deng is a great man, and Mao is a god.
@@user-rm9oy6vr1h you don't represent all chinese,certainly not those millions who starved and those desperate parents who exchanged their kids foe eating.
您只代表您自己。
Anyone else be down for a channel where Simon just makes drinks and gets hammered? I'd watch that.
Great leap forward.... Into a ravine
Mao was an dreamer, the chinese people paid dearly for his dreams
you may say iam a... Oops!!! Wrong one :)))
Always follow your dreams!
@Ben Louis MLK is an example of how to make dreams come true the RIGHT way. I don't recall tens of millions of black people dying because of his crusade for equality. Some did die (including, sadly, himself) but nowhere near the numbers of Chinese that Mao is personally responsible for.
Right way vs Wrong way, in action.
Apparently you don't know how much of a mess China was before he came to power
@@tyanthony1499 And its justifies millions of dead at the hands of Mao?
"Mao was born in 1883."
"In 1911, when Mao was 18..."
I'm not a scientist, but...
Enjoyed your bar tending.
Lovely segway from famine to cocktails there Simon ! In the words of the Malibu advert - I JUST WANT TO BUY A MANGO
There is just something really wrong with worshipping and glorifying a brutal dictator and mass murderer, even to this day.
Who is worshipping or glorifying him
@@Hardcore_Drug_Abuse95 He is the poster boy for the CCP. His glass casket is on display for all to see, as if he was a great hero and role model.
I strongly recommend the book, “ MAO , the unknown story” by Chang/Halliday to dissuade people from the idea that Mao was anything but a power hungry tyrant who managed to rewrite his own history in the most glowing terms. His rule set China back at least 60 years.
Art Curious that book is so biased😂
@@wardog_5539 10 years of exhaustive research
very useful novel, such a detailed book
Xi Jinping to Mao Zedong= I FINNISH WHAT YOU STARTED!
Nice documentary
I hope we could see a video about sun yet sen or Chiang kai shek next
5:50
“Lead us how?”
“i dont know man”
He was the worst of all of them.
Starved millions to death so he could have atomic weapons.
Gave the peoples grain to USSR , as payment for weapons technology.
Dreadful man. !!
Thanks a lot.