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[quote=MARRIE,267250]''Mao Zedong has a good command of the essence of " Art of War". He used the tactic that ''Attack where they are not prepared, go out to where they do not expect" very successfully in the Liberation War. He was very talented in military.''

summersnow, i have little idea of Chairman Mao coz i did not grow up in his Dynasty. However, I am queastioning Mao's talents in ART OF WAR after i finished reading the abstracted article below.

Mao Zedong
            (1893-1976) 
            Chinese Revolutionary
            Mao Zedong, also known as Mao Tse-tung, established the Chinese 
            Communist Party, militarily took over the most populous country in 
            the world, and inspired Communist movements in scores of other 
            countries. Through both his direct actions and widespread 
            distribution of his ideas through his writings, Mao established 
            himself as a preeminent Communist and one of the most influential 
            politico-military leaders of the twentieth century. 
            Although he made his career representing the poor, Mao began life in 
            1893 as a member of a well-to-do peasant-class family who had 
            acquired both land and a business in the village of Shaoshan in 
            Hunan Province. As a result, Mao had a comfortable childhood and 
            opportunities for an advanced education. He studied world military 
            and political history, including the accomplishments of George 
            Washington, Napoleon I, Peter the Great, and his fellow countryman 
            Sun Tzu. 
            Mao served briefly during 1911-12 with the revolutionary forces that 
            defeated the Ching dynasty, seeing little combat as an orderly in a 
            local militia unit but learning much about military life. After the 
            revolt concluded, Mao returned to school, where he worked as a 
            library assistant at Peking University in 1918-19 and studied Marx 
            and Engels and other advocates of socialism and communism. At the 
            end of his university tenure, he began publishing his own thoughts 
            on how Marxism could revitalize China. 
            In 1921, Mao went back to Hunan Province as a teacher and supporter 
            of mass education. When his ideas met resistance from local leaders, 
            Mao became more involved in politics. On July 1, 1921, he joined 
            eleven fellow Marxists in Shanghai to form the Chinese Communist 
            Party (CCP). In 1923 the CCP merged with the Nationalist Party of 
            Kuomintang (KMT), which shared its ideas of people empowerment. The 
            Communists had little respect for the KMT and its leader, Chiang 
            Kai-Shek, but Mao never avoided forming short-term alliances with 
            whoever might assist him in achieving his ultimate, long-term 
            objectives.

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