Mao Tse-tung set up the first communist government in China in 1949. ... Mao first discovered communism at Peking when he read the Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. ... Chiang once again sought out to destroy the Communists. ... The Communists held all China north of the Yangtze by 1949. ... Although Mao's communism was somewhat like what Marx described, it did have its differences. ...

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