Mao Tse-tung

British

/ ˈmaʊ tseɪˈtʊŋ /

noun

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.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 23, 2022

Even Mao Tse-tung, in the otherwise rabid "The Chairman," proves in some grim sense, irrepressible.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2019

In September 1959, on a trip back from visiting Mao Tse-tung in China, he stopped off in Novosibirsk.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2017

"It is, of course, 'The Quotations of Chairman Mao Tse-tung,' and its author is, um, Mao Tse-tung," May says as Kay.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2016

I acquired the complete works of Marx and Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, and others and probed into the philosophy of dialectical and historical materialism.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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