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Mao Zedong
[ mou zuh-doong, dzuh-; Chinese mou zuh-dawng ]
noun
- 1893–1976, Chinese Communist leader: chairman of the People's Republic of China 1949–59; chairman of the Chinese Communist Party 1943–76.
Mao Zedong
- 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.
Example Sentences
The defeated Nationalist government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan in 1949, while the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong established the People’s Republic of China on the mainland.
RedNote's Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, translates to Little Red Book, but the app says it is not a reference to Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong's book of quotations with the same name.
They were to aid Kuomintang troops who were fending off a Communist siege by Mao Zedong's army.
The People's Republic of China has a "magic weapon", according to its founding leader Mao Zedong and its current president Xi Jinping.
In China, tens of millions more perished in a 1959-1961 famine caused in part by Mao Zedong’s embrace of Lysenko’s policies.
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