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{| cellpadding=3px cellspacing=0px bgcolor=#f7f8ff style="float:right; border:1px solid; margin:5px" Names Given name Style name Trad. 毛澤東 潤芝¹ Simp. 毛泽东 润芝 Pinyin Máo Zédōng Rùnzhī WG Mao Tse-tung Jun-chih IPA Surname: Mao ¹Originally 詠芝 (咏芝)

(December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976) (also Mao Tse-Tung in Wade-Giles transliteration) was a Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led China's communist revolution after decades of foreign occupation and civil war in the 20th century. Following the Communist Party of China’s military victory over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949, in the culturally-significant Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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