Mao Tse-tung

/ ˈmaʊ tseɪˈtʊŋ /

noun

1. Mao Tse-tung18931976MChinesePOLITICS: MarxistPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: head of state 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

Example Sentences

Mandela sent fighters for training and indoctrination to China when it was still ruled by that revolutionary icon, Mao Tse-Tung.

From The Daily Beast

China carried the torch: Under Mao Tse-tung, “the Chinese people were doing well.”

From The Daily Beast

This policy would have put Roosevelt in the same general category of agrarian reform as Stalin and Mao Tse-tung.

From The Daily Beast

With him we find one of his employees in the Library, Mao Tse-tung.

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