What is Mao Zedong?
{{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = Chairman | name = Mao Zedong | native_name = {{nobold|毛泽东|}} | image = Mao Tsé-toung, portrait en buste, assis, faisant face à Nikita Khrouchtchev, pendant la visite du chef russe 1958 à Pékin (Mao Zedong).jpg | caption = Photograph distributed by the [[United Press International]], 1957 | order = 1st | office = Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party | deputy = {{plainlist| * [[Liu Shaoqi]] * [[Lin Biao]] * [[Zhou Enlai]] * Hua Guofeng }} | term_start = 20 March 1943 | term_end = 9 September 1976 | predecessor = ''Position established'';<br />[[Zhang Wentian]]<br />(as [[General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party|General Secretary]]) | successor = [[Hua Guofeng]] | order1 = 1st | office1 = President of China | premier1 = Zhou Enlai | vicepresident1 = [[Zhu De]] | term_start1 = 1 October 1949 | term_end1 = 27 April 1959 | predecessor1 = ''Office established'';<br />[[Chiang Kai-shek]]<br />(as President of the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]]) | successor1 = Liu Shaoqi | order2 = 1st and 8th | office2 = Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China){{!}}Chairman of the Central Military Commission | deputy2 = {{plainlist| * Zhu De * Lin Biao * [[Ye Jianying]] }} | term_start2 = {{plainlist| * '''Party Commission''': December 1936 * '''State Commission''': 1 October 1949 }} | term_end2 = {{plainlist| * '''Party Commission''': 9 September 1976 * '''State Commission''': 27 April 1959''' }} | predecessor2 = {{plainlist| * [[Zhu De]]<br />(Party Commission) * ''Position established''<br />(State Commission) }} | successor2 = {{plainlist| * Hua Guofeng<br />(Party Commission) * Liu Shaoqi<br />(State Commission) }} | birth_date =