Mao Tse-tung

British  

/ 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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Example Sentences

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.

From Seattle Times

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

From Washington Post

“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.

From New York Times

‘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.

From Los Angeles Times

Even before the outbreak, Fang Fang had drawn criticism from radical leftists in China, who tend to be ideological hardliners when it comes to nostalgia for the days of Mao Tse-tung.

From Los Angeles Times