Yang Ch'ang-chi (c. 1870-1 7 January 1920), Western-trained scholar who taught ethics at the First Provincial Normal School in Changsha (1912-17) and at Peking University (1918-19). He is best remembered as the teacher of Mao Tse-tung and the father of Mao's first wife. Precise information about the life of Yang Ch'ang-chi is scanty. A native […]

Mao Tse-tung 毛澤東 T. Jun-chih 潤之 Mao Tse-tung (26 December 1893-), leader of the Chinese Communist party and founder of the People's Republic of China. Shaoshan, Hsiangt'an hsien, Hunan, was the birthplace of Mao Tse-tung. This agriculturally productive and culturally advanced section of Hunan produced two of the outstanding scholargenerals of the late Ch'ing period, […]