Best way to keep sweet corn. berkleybabe | Aug 30, 2001. Back from the farmer's market today (cool idea, it's open Thur. 4 p.m. -8 p.m.) with a bunch of great, just picked sweet corn.
Mao Zedong, 1957 Â© Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution'. Mao was born on 26 December 1893 into a peasant family in Shaoshan, in Hunan province, central China. After training as a teacher, he travelled to Beijing where he worked in the University Library.
Deng took power in 1978, when China was in dire poverty. By the time he stepped down 14 years later, over 200 million people had been lifted out of poverty, and the policies he introduced set China on the path to become an economic powerhouse.