Mao Zedong, the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, died on 9 September 1976 at the age of 82, following a period of ill health. The government ordered a week of national mourning following his death.

Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Mao's Last Dancer is a 2009 Australian film based on professional dancer Li Cunxin's 2003 autobiographical memoir of the same name. Li Cunxin is portrayed by Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Dancer Chi Cao , Australian Ballet dancer Chengwu Guo and Huang Wen Bin.

2008年3月15日 · In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Mao’s Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in the history of China. Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Read it now.

2021年11月27日 · Mao’s last public appearance—and the last known photograph of him alive—was on May 27, 1976, when he met the visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the latter’s one-day visit to Beijing.

2025年3月12日 · Mao Zedong (born December 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan province, China—died September 9, 1976, Beijing) was the principal Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led his country’s communist revolution.

2006年1月1日 · In its invaluable critical analysis of Chairman Mao and its brilliant portrait of a culture in turmoil, Mao's Last Revolution offers the most authoritative and compelling account to date of this seminal event in the history of China.

MAO'S LAST REVOLUTION By Roderick MacFarquhar FOR the Chinese Communist Party, this year's "great pro letarian cultural revolution" has meant the most serious purge since the disgrace of Defense Minister P'eng Teh huai and two other Politburo members during the Great Leap Forward. P'eng Chen, effectively the sixth-ranking member of

Mao Zedong (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese Communist politician and revolutionary. He founded the People's Republic of China (PRC), and was its first President from 1949 to 1959.

Historians refer to China’s Mao years as the period from the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 until his death in 1976. The Cultural Revolution decade that concluded the Mao years has been called “Mao’s Last Revolution,” the peak of high socialism.