Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping talking together circa 1959. Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung (1893 – 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he ruled as an autocrat styled the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949, until his death in 1976. Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997); Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989

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