Like other Chinese presidents/leaders since 1949, Mao mainly lived in ZhongNanHai (Center-South-Sea). It’s beside the Forbidden City. It was Empress Dowager CiXi’s palace. However, he also lived in BeiDaiHe, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Shaoshan, Xiangshan (in Beijing) , Shanghai etc for short term. read more
Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976), commonly known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. read more
Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 until his death, and he was chairman (chief of state) of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1959 and chairman of the party also until his death. read more