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Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Quotations from Chairman Mao (simplified Chinese: 毛主席语录; traditional Chinese: 毛主席語錄; pinyin: Máo Zhǔxí Yǔlù, commonly known as the "红宝书" pinyin: hóng bǎo shū during the Cultural Revolution [1]), colloquially referred to in the English-speaking world as the Little Red Book, [2] is a compilation book of ...
Struggle sessions (Chinese: 批斗大会; pinyin: pīdòu dàhuì), or denunciation rallies or struggle meetings, [3] were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being "class enemies" were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured, sometimes to death, often by people with whom they were close.
Mao (bird), a bird species Gymnomyza samoensis; Mao (currency), 1/10 of a Chinese yuan; Mao (restaurant chain), Asian-cuisine restaurant chain in Dublin, Ireland; Ma‘o, a Hawaiian name for a species of cotton; Maō, a demon or devil in Japanese mythology, folklore, and fiction; Maotai, a brand of distilled Chinese liquor
Mao's usage of the slogan built on his themes in On Practice, which argues that people must apply their knowledge to practice in reality in order to test its truthfulness. [ 3 ] : 38 Beginning in 1978, it was further promoted by Deng Xiaoping as a central ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics , [ 4 ] and applied to economic and ...
Mao is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including common names 毛 (Máo), 茅 (Máo) and some rare names 茆 (Máo), 卯 (Mǎo), 貌 (Mào) etc. 毛 originated from Ji ( Chinese : 姬 ; pinyin : Jī ), the clan name of Zhou dynasty .
Here, Mao summarised the correlation between Marxist theory and Chinese practice: "The target is the Chinese revolution, the arrow is Marxism–Leninism. We Chinese communists seek this arrow for no other purpose than to hit the target of the Chinese revolution and the revolution of the east."
The Mao Commentary (traditional Chinese: 毛詩傳; simplified Chinese: 毛诗传; pinyin: Máo shī zhuàn) is one of the four early traditions of commentary on the Classic of Poetry. The Mao Commentary is attributed to either Mao Chang 萇 or Mao Heng 亨 (both pre 221 BCE; dates unclear). [ 1 ]