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sep 09 Learn More Mao Zedong Dies
Mao Zedong died on this day in 1976. Chairman Mao is best known as the controversial Communist founding father of the People's Republic of China. But he was also a poet. He started publishing poems as a young man, and his greatest influences were two poets of the Tang Dynasty: Li Bai and Li He. It's generally agreed upon that Mao, who preferred classic forms to modern ones, was no W.B. Yeats, but he wasn't a horrible writer either.
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