mao zedong was the founding father of the peoples republic of china.
mao zedong was the founding father of the peoples republic of china.
who was the founding father of the peoples republic of china?
mao zedong
mao zedong (december 26, 1893september 9, 1976), also known by his courtesy name mao runzhi (毛润之) and the title chairman mao (毛主席, máo zhǔxí) as chairman of the communist party of china and paramount leader of the people's republic of china (prc), was a chinese communist revolutionary who led the communist party of china (cpc) as leader of the communist party of china from 1943 to his death in 1976 and became the founding father of the prc when it was established in 1949. in addition, he was also the chairman of the central military commission from 1954 to 1976. although he was only formally the head of state until 1959, first as chairman of the central people's government (1949 to 1954) and then as chairman of the people's republic of china (1954 to 1959) and was succeeded as head of state by liu shaoqi, his control over the party and military made him the "de facto" leader of the prc from 1949 to 1976 and the paramount leader of the country's first generation of leadership. his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as maoism or mao zedong thought within the prc, an ideology that remains a part of the constitution of the people's republic of china, despite dramatic changes to government policy and ideological orientation after his death.
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the first act of the play is just of the founding father and his customers reenacting the assassination, but the second act of the play focuses on his wife and son. the wife, lucy, and son, brazil, are totally separated from the founding father; they do not see his performance but only hear it off stage. the wife and son are gravediggers as well, they took up the trade after the impersonator left and became the founding father. brazil makes a comment referring to his father’s career path, saying: "diggin was his livelihood but fakin was his callin" (179). lucy, is constantly telling brazil of the man his father was and what his favorite things were before he became the founding father. but brazil always responds with, "i was only 5." lucy is not necessarily quizzing brazil, but wants to reiterate that what his father did for work before as a gravedigger was nothing to be ashamed of, contrary to how his father feels about grave digging, and this impersonating work was not the best decision. the founding father was good at digging graves, he dug them fast and well, calling him a "natural" at it. the founding father is dead to them, because he left them to pursue this reenactment career and has not seen his family in thirty years. towards the end of the play, lucy and brazil go to see the founding father after he performs one last reenactment, he is preparing to go to the "great beyond". he is not physically going to the afterlife, but the "great beyond" is more a metaphor; because the founding father gets up and walks into a coffin where his son then parades his dead body around. the impersonations end with the founding father, brazil does not pick up where his father left off because his mother was constantly telling him that there was nothing wrong with being a gravedigger.
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