In the Red Army period, Mao Zedong's wife He Zizhen was a legendary woman. In 1925, 16-year-old He Zizhen became the first female party member and the first woman minister in Yongxin County ...

Mao Zedong (1893-1976) was a great Marxist, ... In August of the same year, the First Front Army of the Red Army was established with Mao Zedong as general political commissar.

Bo Gu, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De and Mao Zedong/ Edgar Snow. Most Red Army soldiers were peasants and workers who joined to "help the poor and save China". Officers and soldiers were equal, ...

Retracing Mao Zedong's Long March—by Motorcycle. Drunk officials, ... One of the cadres reached into a battle display to wrest a rifle out of the hands of an inanimate Red Army soldier.

No, it wasn’t Hitler or Stalin. It was Mao Zedong. ... A reluctant Mao finally called in the Red Army to put down the marauding Red Guards when they began attacking Communist Party members, ...

He became leader of the party during the Long March - a Red Army retreat. He founded the People's Republic of China on 1 October 1949, ... Chairman Mao, Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung?

No, never,” crowed Mao Zedong, who, Moses-like, recast his comrades’ retreat as a glorious tale of rebirth. “The Long March has proclaimed to the world that the Red Army is an army of heroes.” ...

For nearly a decade, I worked in China as a Times correspondent and bureau chief. But it wasn’t until researching for a book that I uncovered the full story of my father’s role in Communist rule.