Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 is Shaoshan village in Hunan. He experienced a middle peasant upbringing with a very conservative father. Ironically Mao went to an old-fashioned school where he learned the traditional Chinese curriculum. At this time in his childhood, the whole country could foresee the fall of the previous dynasty. Mao studied to be a teacher at The First Provincial Normal School , in Ch'ansha, which influenced his future thinking and beliefs. Mao believed that the Chinese way of thinking needed reform, therefore focused on younger people and peasants to build his political career. Mao ruled one quarter of the worlds population for one quarter of a century, and the way in which he was brought up and studied influenced his future decisions greatly.

In 1951 Mao invented the Three Anti-Campaign, which was actually just a prototype for the Five Anti-Campaign, which came a year later in 1952. The original campaign focused on the aspects of corruption, waste and beaurocratic practice. The people it focused on, were the capitalists, merchants, financiers, officials and Communist Party members. When the campaign was switched to the Five-Anti campaign, it focused on bribery, tax evasion, and leakage of state and industrial secrets.

Another political idea of Mao was the Three Transformations. These transformations consisted of Agriculture, Business and Service Industry, and Industry. Agriculture reform occurred when everybody got their own land and then they were content. This progressed to a volunteer mutual aide unit, where labor, tools, oxen and other animals were shared.

By the 1930s Mao was at the center of the Communist party after its defeat in 1927 by Chiang and the KMT. Mao organized and developed plans of a peasant-based guerilla strategy. Based in the province of Jiangxi, otherwise known as the Jiangxi soviet, Mao ruled nine million people and the CCP was begin to be a reckoning force. The KMT seeing the CCP as a threat attacked the Jiangxi soviet. Chiang's forces were badly beaten in four of these campaigns by Mao guerilla tactics. In 1934 Chiang was able to oust Mao and the CCP with an encirclement campaign developed by German advisors. In October 1934, the CCP decided to flee the Jiangxi province and head north to the soviet in north Shensi. 100,000 communists begin this trek known as the Long March but only 10,000 managed to survive this 6,000-mile migration.

World War II was the turning point for the CCP. Mao, having decided that the Japanese was the true enemy, pushed for a second united front with the KMT. The KMT having been highly discredited by the Japanese forces and unable to successfully defend the cities were pushed to East and agreed on the United Front issue. Mao seeing an opportunity in millions of leaderless peasants presented the CCP as a refuge and successful resistance against the invaders. The Communists used their well-practiced guerilla warfare to cause havoc among the Japanese and increase the notoriety of the CCP. After the war in 1946, Mao was heralded as a brave yet fair leader.

Mao also had a system of thought put in place, especially for the scholars and professors from Japan and the West. These scholars had to participate in land reform and study Leninism, Marxism, and Mao's thought. With this studying, the scholar had to write reports on the intellectual progress that they had made and express their opinion in public newspapers. This wa

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