This man's army defeated that of Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, who escaped to Taiwan.
This leader inherited an army weakened by five of the enemy's Encirclement Campaigns. This ruler's thought inspires the Bengali Naxalites. Decades after leading the Autumn Harvest uprising, he triggered a locust plague by encouraging his countrymen to kill sparrows. This former librarian argued that the peasantry was its own vanguard, and emerged as a leader during a 6000-mile retreat from the Kuomintang called the Long March. This man's army defeated that of Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek, who escaped to Taiwan. For 10 points, name this leader whose sayings are collected in the Little Red Book, the first Chairman of Communist China.
This leader inherited an army weakened by five of the enemy's Encirclement Campaigns.
Mao Zedong [or Mao Tse-tung; or Chairman Mao]