Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy

Main Figures in the Chinese Revolution:

Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, others

Political Science 215

Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA 24401

by Prof. Gordon L. Bowen, Ph.D.

Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party

Changsha birthplace of Mao Zedong

 From left to right: Mao Zetan, Mao Zemin, Wen Qimei and Mao Zedong at Changsha, 1919. Note how Mao wears the robe of a scholar, thus displaying his advanced education, while his brothers wear the clothes of peasants.

Young Mao Zedong seated, and brothers c.1919

 Mao in 1927.

Mao, 1927

Mao Zedong and Jiang Qing c.1938
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Mao c.1934

 Mao in 1935

Mao c. 1935

c. 1949

Mao and Stalin, 1950

Poster for "Great Leap Forward," 1958-1961

Mao in 1966 at launching of "Cultural Revolution"

 Mao, shown here with Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai; Beijing, 1972.

Henry Kissinger, Zhou Enlai,

Mao in 1972

Mao and U.S. President Richard Nixon, 1972

 

Zhou Enlai (1898-1976), Premier of the Peoples' Republic of China, 1949-1976

Zhou Enlai, c.1938

c. 1960

Richard Nixon and Zhou, 1972

Other Figures:

General Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)

leader of 1911 Revolution, founder of the

Kuomintang (KMT) or Chinese National Party

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Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975),

leader of the KMT, 1925-75; President,

Republic of China, 1948-1975

 

Gen. Lin Biao (1907-1971), leader of the People's Liberation Army

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Lin Biao and Chairman Mao
 

Liu Shaoqi, 1988-1969

CCP Theoretician and 2nd

Chairman of the CCP, 1959-1969

 

Poster attacking Liu Shaoqi, c.1969

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Deng Xiaoping, 1904-1997

Leader of Reform Movement within CCP

 

 Chinese poster saying: "Thoroughly pulverize the Liu-Deng reactionary line!", 1967 ("Liu" referring to Liu Shaoqi)

1967 poster denouncing Liu and Deng

 

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