Chinese Communist PartyAbbreviationChinese中共Hanyu PinyinZhōnggòngTibetan nameTibetanཀྲུང་གོ་གུང་ཁྲན་ཏངZhuang nameZhuangCunghgoz GungcanjdangjMongolian nameMongolian CyrillicДундад улсын (Хятадын) Эв хамт (Kоммунист) НамMongolian scriptᠳᠤᠮᠳᠠᠳᠤ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ ᠤᠨ(ᠬᠢᠲᠠᠳ ᠤᠨ)ᠡᠪ ᠬᠠᠮᠲᠤ(ᠺᠣᠮᠮᠤᠶᠢᠨᠢᠰᠲ)ᠨᠠᠮUyghur nameUyghurجۇڭگو كوممۇنىستىك پارتىيىسىThe Communist Party of China (CPC), commonly known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
Mao ZedongCourtesy nameSimplified Chinese润之Traditional Chinese潤之Central institution membership 1964–1976: Member, National People's Congress 1954–1959: Member, National People's Congress 1938–1976: Member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Politburo 1938–1976: Member, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th Central Committee Other offices held 1954–1959: Chairman of the People's Republic of China 1954–1976: Chairman, CCP Central Military Commission 1954–1959: President and Chairman, National Defence Council 1954–1976: Honorary Chairman, CPPCC National Committee 1949–1954: Chairman, Central People's Revolutionary Military Commission 1949–1954: Chairman, CPPCC National Committee 1949–1954: Chairman, PRC Central People's Government 1943–1956: Chairman, CCP Central Secretariat 1936–1949: Chairman, CCP Central Military Commission Paramount Leader ofthe People's Republic of China(Inaugural holder)Hua Guofeng→PersonalEarly lifeFormer ResidenceDeath and state funeralMemorial HallIdeologyMaoismThird WorldismMarxism–Leninism–MaoismGonzalo ThoughtPrachanda PathLeader of China1945 election as CCP leaderTenureRevolutionLand Reform MovementProclamationKorean WarCampaign to Suppress CounterrevolutionariesThree-anti and Five-anti CampaignsFirst five-year planFive Principles of Peaceful CoexistenceBandung ConferenceSufan movementHundred Flowers CampaignAnti-Rightist CampaignCanton FairGreat Leap ForwardGreat Chinese FamineTwo Bombs, One SatelliteSeven Thousand Cadres ConferenceSocialist Education MovementThird FrontCultural RevolutionAbolition of the presidencyUN representationRichard Nixon visitWorksBombard the HeadquartersA Critique of Soviet EconomicsOn ContradictionOn Guerrilla WarfareOn New DemocracyOn PracticeOn Protracted WarOn the Correct Handling ofContradictions Among the PeopleOn the People's Democratic DictatorshipOn the Ten Major RelationshipsOppose Book WorshipQuotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tungReply to Li ShuyiHunan ReportSelected Works of Mao Tse-TungThe Shian Kian Weekly ReviewPoetryChangshaThe Double NinthLoushan PassLegacyCult of personalityChairman Mao en route to AnyuanPortraits overlooking Tiananmen1989 vandalism incidentStatues YoungFuzhouChengduLong Live the VictoryNorth Park Commune inspectionMao Zedong (26December 1893 – 9September 1976) was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
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Peaceful coexistencePeaceful coexistence (Russian: мирное сосуществование, romanized: mirnoye sosushchestvovaniye) was a theory, developed and applied by the Soviet Union at various points during the Cold War in the context of primarily Marxist–Leninist foreign policy and adopted by Soviet-dependent socialist states, according to which the Socialist Bloc could peacefully coexist with the capitalist bloc (i.e., U.S.-allied states).Foreign policy of ChinaThe People's Republic of China emerged as a great power and one of the three big players in the tri-polar geopolitics (PRC-US-USSR) during the Cold War, after the Korean War in 1950–1953 and the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s, with its status as a recognized nuclear weapons state. Currently, China has one of the world's largest populations, second largest GDP (nominal) and the largest economy in the world by PPP.
Western BlocThe Western Bloc, also known as the Capitalist Bloc, the Freedom Bloc, the Free Bloc, and the American Bloc, was an unofficial coalition of countries that were officially allied with the United States during the Cold War (1947–1991).Death of Zhou EnlaiZhou Enlai, one of the principal founders and top leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China, died at 9:57 a.m. on January 8, 1976, at the age of 77, from bladder cancer at the 305 Hospital in Beijing.
Zunyi ConferenceThe Zunyi Conference (simplified Chinese: 遵义会议; traditional Chinese: 遵義會議; pinyin: Zūnyì huìyì) was a meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1935 during the Long March. This meeting involved a power struggle between the leadership of Bo Gu and Otto Braun and the opposition led by Mao Zedong. The result was that Mao left the meeting in position to take over military command and become the leader of the Communist Party.
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Premier of ChinaThe premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China is the head of government of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and leader of the State Council, the executive organ of the National People's Congress (NPC) and highest administrative organ of state power. The post of prime minister was established in 1911 near the end of the Qing dynasty.Wade–GilesWade–Giles is a romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language and the second most common transcription after Pinyin. Based on the Beijing dialect, Wade–Giles was developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade during the mid-19th century, and was given completed form with Herbert Giles's A Chinese–English Dictionary (1892). It became the system of transcription familiar in the English-speaking world for most of the 20th century.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.