Mao Tse-tung

Mao Ze·dong (mou

) also Mao Tse-tung (ts

) 1893-1976.

Chinese Communist leader and theorist. A founder of the Chinese Communist Party (1921), he led the Long March (1934-1935) and proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949. As party chairman and the country's first head of state (1949-1959) he initiated the Great Leap Forward and the founding of communes. He continued as party chairman after 1959 and was a leading figure in the Cultural Revolution (1966-1969). In the 1970s he consolidated his political power and established ties with the West.

Mao Tse-tung [ˈmaʊ tseɪˈtʊŋ], Mao Ze Dong

(Biographies / Mao Tse-tung (1893-1976) M, Chinese, POLITICS: Marxist, POLITICS: statesman, POLITICS: 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

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Mao Tse-tung [ˈmaʊtseɪˈtʊŋ] N → Mao Zedong

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Now Beck has unearthed footage of Obama's White House Communications Director Anita Dunn at a high-school graduation last spring praising Mao Tse-tung as one of her two "favorite political philosophers.

The White House war on Glenn Beck and Fox by Eddlem, Thomas R. / The New American

1976: Mao Tse-tung died aged 82 after a series of strokes.

Onthisday by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)

Concentrating on guerrilla warfare, Mao Tse-tung famously wrote that "in the relationship that should exist between the people and the troops, the former may be likened to water and the latter to the fish that inhabit it.

Taylor, Lewis. Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern ... by Taylor, Paul D. / Naval War College Review