Mao Tse-tung

/ ˈmaʊ tseɪˈtʊŋ /

noun

1. 1893–1976, Chinese Marxist theoretician and statesman. The son of a peasant farmer, he helped to found the Chinese Communist Party (1921) and established a soviet republic in SE China (1931–34). He led the retreat of Communist forces to NW China known as the Long March (1935–36), emerging as leader of the party. In opposing the Japanese in World War II, he united with the Kuomintang regime, which he then defeated in the ensuing civil war. He founded the People's Republic of China (1949) of which he was chairman until 1959. As party chairman until his death, he instigated the Cultural Revolution in 1966

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In China, he is the most celebrated figure apart from Mao Tse-tung – this in a country where basketball is not even the most popular sport.

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His classroom features a black Antifa flag as well as a poster of Chinese communist dictator Mao Tse-tung, under whom an estimated 45 million people died of starvation, persecution and torture during the Great Leap Forward.

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“Goldwater is basically a paranoid schizophrenic” who “resembles Mao Tse-tung,” one offered.

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“Go Marx! Go Lenin! Go Mao Tse-Tung! Go Juventus!” he wrote in a 1971 letter to his publisher, grouping Communist leaders with his favorite football team.

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‘Nixon in China’ The Metropolitan Opera streams its Peter Sellars-directed 2011 staging of composer John Adams’ musical drama about the 37th U.S. president’s momentous 1972 tête-à-tête with Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

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