Mao and The Long March

Having looked at China before the Chinese Communist Party came to power, I want to take a few episodes to look at the man who dominated Chinese history from the end of the ‘century of humiliation’ to his death in 1976. The man whose body still sits in a mausoleum in the middle of Tiananmen Square in the heart of Beijing: Mao. This episode looks at some of the reasons why he gained power.

 

Intro and outro music curtesy of slip.stream:

https://slip.stream/tracks/58fb6726-c035-4d10-a8e8-eba70e5164ad