Ducksters
Ducksters: Biography for Kids: Mao Zedong
A site containing the biography of Mao Zedong who was the leader of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese communist party. He was also called Mao Tse-tung.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Mao Zedong
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about Mao Zedong.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Liu Chunhua, Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan
As a prominent icon in the Cultural Revolution, "Chairman Mao en Route to Anyuan" celebrated the grassroots nature of revolutionary history and cultivated devotion to Mao during a tumultuous time. This painting is a brilliant example of...
Internet History Sourcebooks Project
Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: Report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan
This site from the Modern History Sourcebook of the Fordham University contains Mao Zedong's report on an investigation of the peasant movement in Hunan, March 1927.
Stanford University
Stanford History Education Group: China's Cultural Revolution
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan inspiring students to consider what it was like during the Cultural Revolution prompted by Mao Tse-Tung in the 1960's through primary source documents.
Curated OER
Time 100: Leaders Mao Zedong
TIME Magazine features Mao Zedong as one of the most influential leaders of the 20th Century. Content includes an extensive biography and a brief timeline of his life.
Curated OER
Time: The Time 100: Leaders and Revolutionaries: Mao Zedong: Mao and Jiang Qing
Photograph of Mao and Jiang Qing, 1947.
Digital History
Digital History: How China Became a Communist Country [Pdf]
A great overview of the revolution in China, the conflict between the Nationalists and Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists and Mao Zedong, and the eventual victory of the Communist Party. Read about the failure of Chiang Kai-shek, the...
PBS
Pbs: Great Leap
An overview of the incredible changes that China went through due to Mao Zedong. Read an eyewitness interview from a woman who lived through those times.
University of Maryland
The Ninth Party Congress and Lin Biao
The middle phase of the Chinese cultural Revolution. It saw the end of Lin Biao who had been named Mao's successor.
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Communism
This site explains the history of communism throughout the world. Looks at the principles of Marxism and communism, Karl Marx, and major communist political victories around the world.
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Jiang Qing
Jiang Qing (1913-1991) was a moderately successful actress in Shanghai who rose to become the wife of Mao Zedong and one of the leaders of the Gang of Four.
Ducksters
Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Chinese Civil War
Kids learn about the history of the Chinese Civil War. Fight between the communists led by Mao Zedong and the nationalists.
Ducksters
Ducksters: The Cold War for Kids: Communism
Kids learn about the history of Communism and the Cold War. Karl Marx, Lenin, and Mao were world leaders over communist countries.
International Institute of Social History
International Institute of Social History: With Regard to the Great Teacher
From the International Institute of Social History this is "With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word 'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the word 'Usefullness'." a Chinese...
University of Maryland
University of Maryland: The Cultural Revolution Decade
A history of another great failure, the Cultural Revolution. It set China back for years because under it most of China's Universities were closed.
University of Maryland
The Chinese Cultural Revolution: The Militant Phase
A history of the Cultural Revolution during the most militant phase 1966 - 1968.
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