Mao Zedong In the early 1900’s as China emerged from a half of a century of revolution and moved toward a place of economic development and social change, Mao Zedong (Wade -- Giles: Mao Tse Tung) its principle revolutionary thinker and for many years its unchallenged leader, held a critical place in the History of the country’s reemergence. He did not play a dominant role throughout the whole struggle. In the early years of the Chinese Communist Party he was a secondary figure but not a irdisregardable one. Even after the 1400’s (except maybe during the cultural revolution) the vital decisions were not his alone. Looking at the period from the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party in 192