Few people in history deserve sole credit for changing the fate of an entire nation. One of them is Mao Tse-tung, the man who rose from the peasantry to become the pre-eminent revolutionary theorist, political leader and statesman of Communist China (CNN, 2001). Mao Tse Tung was born on December 1893 in a village of Shaoshan in Hunan Province (China's south). His family is wealthy peasant farmers. He has one sister and two younger brothers. Mao lives with his mother's family in a neighboring village until he is eight. He then returns to Shaoshan to begin his education. When he was 10 he ran away from school. Due to expulsion from school three times, his father refuses to pay fees for his education. At the age of 14 Mao married with an 18 years old cousin of his called Lou, but he never lived with her long because she died at the very young age in 1910. Mao is allowed to resume his schooling. At age 16, and against his father's wishes, he leaves Shaoshan and enrolls in a nearby......
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