Synopsis
Mao Tse Tung's 42-year leadership of the Chinese Communist Party changed the face of China, the world's most populous country.
- Programme: Twentieth Century History
- Episode: 13: One Man's Revolution: Mao Tse-Tung
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 1978
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