Mao Zedong was a political leader.
The Communist Party of China ( CPC ) is the founding and ruling political party of the People 's Republic of China ( PRC ) . Mao Zedong . Mao adopted Marxism -- Leninism while working at Peking University and became a founding member of the Communist Party of China ( CPC ) , leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in 1927 .