{i} Chinese female first name; Chinese male first name; Chinese family name; Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist revolution and president of the People's Republic of China (1949-1959); lunar god (Persian Mythology); town in the Dominican Republic; city in Chad; card game in which the objective is to get rid of all of the cards in one's hand
Chinese philosopher and statesman, 1890-1976, who applied Marxism to China's conditions; he is famous for the original contribution that under certin conditions the peasant class can be a force for revolutionary change Previously Marxists had analyzed the peasant class as a "backward" force Mao became leader of the People's Republic of China, the most populous nation on Earth, in 1949 and held leadership until his death as an old man in 1976
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A revolutionary leader, particularly a communist, socialist, or major reformist. Sometimes used figuratively in non-political contexts
Thirty years ago with his little Green Book and his Third Universal Theory, he proposed himself as the Mao Zedong of the Middle East, fashioning what he claimed to be a new ideology from the patriarchal customs of his clan.
or Mao Tun orig. Shen Dehong or Shen Yanbing born July 4, 1896, Tongxiang, Zhejiang province, China died March 27, 1981, Beijing Chinese literary critic, author, and editor. A founder of the League of Left-Wing Writers (1930), he served as minister of culture after the communist government was established (1949-64). Many Western critics consider his trilogy of novellas Shi (1930; "Eclipse") to be his masterpiece. English translations of his works include Spring Silkworms and Other Stories (1956) and the novel Rainbow (1992). He is generally considered China's greatest novelist of realism
Sacred mountain in Jiangsu province in China, the focus of Daoist revelations to the visionary Yang Xi (AD 364-370). Yang Xi was visited by a group of perfected immortals (zhenren) from the heaven of Shangqing (Supreme Purity), who gave him a new set of scriptures and instructions on the coming apocalypse, during which the good were to take refuge in luminous caverns beneath such sacred mountains as Mao Shan. The Mao Shan revelations incorporated elements of Buddhism into Daoist thought and proposed reforms of Daoism, including rejection of its sexual rites in favour of a spiritualized union with a celestial partner
(1893-1976) Chinese revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Chinese communist party, founder of the People's Republic of China, president of the People's Republic of China from 1949-1959
a Chinese politician who helped to start the Chinese Communist Party in 1921 and became its leader in 1935, during the Long March. In 1949 he gained control of the government and established the People's Republic of China. He started the Cultural Revolution in 1966. He was one of the most powerful and successful leaders of China, and most Chinese people greatly respected him, had pictures of him in their homes, and had copies of the Little Red Book called The Thoughts of Chairman Mao (1893-1976). or Mao Tse-tung born Dec. 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan province, China died Sept. 9, 1976, Beijing Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led China's communist revolution and served as chairman of the People's Republic of China (1949-59) and chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; 1931-76). The son of a peasant, Mao joined the revolutionary army that overthrew the Qing dynasty but, after six months as a soldier, left to acquire more education. At Beijing University he met Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu, founders of the CCP, and in 1921 he committed himself to Marxism. At that time, Marxist thought held that revolution lay in the hands of urban workers, but in 1925 Mao concluded that in China it was the peasantry, not the urban proletariat, that had to be mobilized. He became chairman of a Chinese Soviet Republic formed in rural Jiangxi province; its Red Army withstood repeated attacks from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist army but at last undertook the Long March to a more secure position in northwestern China. There Mao became the undisputed head of the CCP. Guerrilla warfare tactics, appeals to the local population's nationalist sentiments, and Mao's agrarian policies gained the party military advantages against their Nationalist and Japanese enemies and broad support among the peasantry. Mao's agrarian Marxism differed from the Soviet model, but, when the communists succeeded in taking power in China in 1949, the Soviet Union agreed to provide the new state with technical assistance. However, Mao's Great Leap Forward and his criticism of "new bourgeois elements" in the Soviet Union and China alienated the Soviet Union irrevocably; Soviet aid was withdrawn in 1960. Mao followed the failed Great Leap Forward with the Cultural Revolution, also considered to have been a disastrous mistake. After Mao's death, Deng Xiaoping introduced social and economic reforms that began reversing the policies put in place by Mao. See also Jiang Qing; Liu Shaoqi; Maoism