Mao Zedong Thought (), or Maoism, is a political theory derived from the teachings of the Chinese political leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976).
 Its followers are known as Maoists.
 Developed from the 1950s until the Deng Xiaoping reforms in the 1970s, it was widely applied as the guiding political and military ideology of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and as theory guiding revolutionary movements around the world.
 The essential difference between Maoism and other forms of Marxism is that Mao claimed that peasants should be the essential revolutionary class in China, because, contrary to their industrial working "comrades", they were more suited to establishing a successful revolution
Mao Zedong () is a 2013 Chinese epic biographical television series which dramatises the life of Mao Zedong, the father of the People's Republic of China.
 it was directed by Gao Xixi, and starring Tang Guoqiang, Liu Jing, Guo Lianwen, and Wang Wufu.
 The television series is released in 2013 to mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong.
Mao Yuanxin (born 14 February 1941) was the liaison between Chinese leader Mao Zedong and the Communist Party's Central Committee in the former's ailing years, when he was no longer able to regularly attend political functions.
 He was Mao Zedong's nephew and considered an ally to the hardline political faction known as the Gang of Four, and was arrested soon after Mao's death after a political struggle ensued, and was sentenced to prison.
People's war, also called protracted people's war, is a military-political strategy first developed by the Chinese Communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976).
 The basic concept behind People's War is to maintain the support of the population and draw the enemy deep into the countryside (stretching their supply lines) where the population will bleed them dry through a mix of mobile and guerrilla warfare.
 It was used by the Communists against Imperial Japanese Army in World War II and the Nationalist Government in the Chinese Civil War.
Yáng Kāihuì (; courtesy name: Yúnjǐn (); November 6, 1901 – November 14, 1930) was the second wife of Mao Zedong, whom he married in 1920.
 She had three children with Mao Zedong: Mao Anying, Mao Anqing, and Mao Anlong.
 Her father was Yang Changji, the head of the Hunan First Normal School and one of Mao’s favorite teachers.
Fang Zhichun () (September 11, 1905 – July 31, 1993) was a People's Republic of China politician.
 He was a cousin of Fang Zhimin.
 He was born in Yiyang County, Jiangxi Province.
 He joined the Communist Party of China in 1924 and participated in the Nanchang Uprising of August 1927.
 In January 1928, along with his cousin and Huang Dao, he organized an uprising in Hengfeng County, Jiangxi Province.
 In 1937 he went to Yan'an, Shaanxi Province and in 1938 he went to the Soviet Union.
 After returning to China, he was arrested and imprisoned in Xinjiang by local warlord Sheng Shicai.
 In June 1946, he married Zhu Danhua, the widow of Mao Zedong's younger brother Mao Zemin, and became the stepfather Mao Zedong's nephew Mao Yuanxin.
Former Residence of Mao Zedong or Mao Zedong's Former Residence () was built in the late Qing Dynasty.
 It is located in Shaoshan Village of Shaoshan township in Shaoshan, Xiangtan, Hunan, China.
 The building was the birthplace and childhood home of Mao Zedong, the first leader of the People's Republic of China.
 It has a building area of about 472.92 m2 , embodies buildings such as the old houses, the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall, the Bronze Statue of Mao Zedong, the Cultural relics Exhibition Hall, and the Dishui Hole (Dripping Water Cave; 滴水洞 ).
During the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the portrait of Mao Zedong at Tiananmen was defaced.
 At 2:00pm, May 23, 1989, three young protesters from Liuyang, Hunan, posted banners on the wall of the Tiananmen gate's passway.
 The slogans on the banners read "Time to End the Five Thousand Years of Autocracy" (五千年专制到此可以告一段落！), "Time to End the Cult of Personality" (个人崇拜从今可以休矣).
 Shortly after, they threw eggs filled with pigment to the Portrait of Mao Zedong on the Tiananmen Gate.
 They were immediately caught by members of the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation (, abbr.
 高自联).
 At 5:00pm, they were forced to appear in a press conference and admitted that their activities were totally irrelevant with Movement.
 At 7:00pm, they were handed to Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.
 On a TV program broadcast the same day, members of the Movement claim that they had nothing to do with the three youths, and criticized them.
 At 10:00pm, the defaced portrait of Mao Zedong was taken down and replaced by a spare.
Zhang Guotao (November 26, 1897 – December 3, 1979) was a founding member and important leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and bitter rival to Mao Zedong.
 During the 1920s he studied in the Soviet Union and became a key contact with the Comintern and organized the CCP labor movement in the United Front with the Guomindang.
 In 1931, after the Party had been driven from the cities, he established the E-Yu-Wan Soviet.
 When his armies were driven from the region, he joined the Long March but lost a contentious struggle for party leadership to Mao Zedong.
 Zhang's armies then took a different route from Mao's and were badly beaten by local forces in Gansu.
 When his depleted forces finally arrived to join Mao in Yan'an, Zhang continued his losing challenge to Mao, and left the party in 1938.
 Zhang eventually retired to Toronto, Canada, and became a Christian shortly before his death in 1979.
 His memoirs provide valuable and vivid information on his life and party history.
Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung ( ; December 26, 1893September 9, 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary, poet, political theorist and founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.

Question: What political organization did Mao Zedong belong to during the People's War?
Answer: Chinese Communist