Mao Zedong

American  

[mou zuh-doong, dzuh-, mou zuh-dawng] / ˈmaʊ zəˈdʊŋ, dzə-, ˈmaʊ ˈzʌˈdɔŋ /

Wade-Giles, Mao Tse-tung

noun

1. 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.

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Mao Zedong Cultural  

1. A Chinese revolutionary leader of the twentieth century. He led an army of workers and peasants on the Long March in the 1920s and used guerrilla warfare techniques successfully on both the Japanese invaders and the forces of the Chinese government under Chiang Kai-shek. In 1949, his armies took over the country and established the People's Republic of China. Mao continued as chairman of China's Communist party and as premier. His “Little Red Book,” Quotations from Chairman Mao, was standard reading for schoolchildren of the country. Toward the end of his life, he brought about the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in which all capitalist or elitist culture was to be purged. Mao died in 1976.

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Example Sentences

Chairman Mao Zedong championed technological independence in the 1950s and 1960s as relations deteriorated with the Soviet Union.

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Eleven days later, Richard Nixon arrived in China to see if Mao Zedong was up for a thaw.

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When Mao Zedong came to power in 1949, the drive against religion became more systematic and ruthless.

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Mao Zedong once said that China must wield both the pen and the gun against its adversaries.

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Mr. Bird also discusses land redistribution, from the incremental version favored by Henry George, the 19th-century American political economist, to the violent reforms implemented by Mao Zedong in China.

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