Forty years ago Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution.

This is Mao Tse tung. He brought health to China. And then he died.

Students in Shanghai now only learn about Mao in junior high school.

From now until January 1945, around 1.1 million people will be killed here.

Napoleon famously said that God is on the side of the big battalions, and Mao Zedong argued that power comes from the barrel of a gun.

NEW DELHI Mao Zedong once famously called for the Chinese to let a hundred flowers bloom.

China then in the third year of Mao Zedong s rule was not even invited to participate in the peace conference.

Chairman Mao wanted a hundred flowers to bloom, but only so that he could cut them all off at their roots.

Mao Tse Tung eventually brought health to China, and then he died, and then Deng Xiaoping started this amazing move forward.

On October 1, 1949, as Chiang Kai chek's defeated Kuomintang (KMT) troops fled for Taiwan, Mao Zedong declared that China has stood up.

In China, Mao Zedong united the country in 1949, while Deng Xiaoping was responsible for engineering its unprecedented economic rise.

Mao, the False God

Does Mao meow?

Mao Zedong, on visiting and talking to experts at a modern steel plant in Manchuria, is reported to have lost confidence that the backyard furnaces were a good idea after all, but feared the effects of a loss of momentum.

After all, as Mao Zedong told Edgar Snow in 1936, It is the immediate task of China to regain all our lost territories, explicitly including Formosa.

LONDON A great deal of water has flowed through the Taiwan Strait in the 70 years since the leader of China s Communists, Mao Zedong, met the leader of his nationalist opponents, Chiang Kai shek.

The Second Life of Chairman Mao

But how correct was Mao?

Mao would approve.

When Mao Zedong took power in 1949, his immediate goal was to re establish the greater China of the Qing Dynasty (1644 1912), insisting that the Manchu led empire was the permanent and enduring China.

Mao s China at 60

Verdicts on Mao differ wildly.

Mao's advice is not bad.

Indeed, Hu has sought to restore some of Mao s luster.

Marx and Mao are probably spinning in their graves.

Mao died aspiring to exterminate Chinese culture.

Zhang decorates his office with Chairman Mao's portrait.

People killed others to safeguard Mao, and those who were executed shouted Long Live Chairman Mao on their way to death.

While hiding out in the caves of Yenan, Mao became a distributor of opium.

Mao made China proud. Deng made it prosperous.

Since then, China has sought to make good on Mao's pledge.

Chairman Mao Wasn't at WWII's Cairo Conference.

The legacies of Deng and his predecessor, Mao Zedong, are very different.

But the dark side of Mao cannot be totally expunged.

Mao, indeed, called domestic spying an invisible magic weapon.

The local warlord, who hated Chiang Kaishek, let Mao pass.

Mao set off yet another wave of persecutions in 1968.

Taiwan succeeded, China under Mao Zedong didn't.

Her catalogue of Mao s correct practice is numbing in its immorality and bloodthirstiness.

The socialism established by Mao Zedong has been replaced by a thoroughly cynical creed.

Hu Jintao s rule is not a return to the Mao Zedong era.

Peasants followed Mao because the CCP promised them land.

And it moves up with Mao Tse Tung getting health, not getting so rich.

Chairman Mao s rule combined elements of the Chinese imperial system with Communist totalitarianism.

After the Nationalist government collapsed in 1949, Mao s New China emerged.