Mao Tse-tung

Mao Ze·dong  (mou dzdng) also Mao Tse-tung (tstng) 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.

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

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(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

Translations

Mao Tse-tung [ˈmaʊtseɪˈtʊŋ] N → Mao Zedong