Mao Zedong was born in Shaoshanchong, south China's Hunan Province on December 26, 1893.

From the age of eight he attended his native village's primary school and acquired the basic knowledge of the Confucian Classics. He was educated and graduated from the First Hunan Provincial Normal School in Changsha in 1918. Then he went to Peking University, working as librarian's assistant until. He had led a campaign against the Hunan local military warlord in 1920.

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