| | to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949 | |
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| | a hundred flowers bloom, a hundred schools of thought contend (idiom); refers to the classical philosophic schools of the Warring States period 475-221 BC, but adopted for Mao's campaign of 1956 | |
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| | Norman Bethune (1890-1939), Canadian doctor, worked for communists in Spanish civil war and for Mao in Yan'an, where he died of blood poisoning | |
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| | surname Mao | |
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| | to bid farewell / tricks of the trade / pithy mnemonic formula (e.g. Mao Zedong's 16-character mantra 十六字訣|十六字诀 on guerrilla warfare) | |
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| | Shanbei, northern Shaanxi province, including Yulin 榆林 and Yan'an 延安, a Holy Land of Mao's revolution 革命聖地|革命圣地 | |
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| | On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957 | |
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| | Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist | |
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| | surname Mao | |
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| | Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容, Jiangsu Province | |
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| | Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾 | |
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| | Mao Sui recommends himself (idiom); to offer one's services (in the style of Mao Sui offering his services to king of Chu 楚 of the Warring states) | |
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| | Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), Mao's attempt to modernize China's economy, which resulted in economic devastation, and millions of deaths from famine caused by misguided policies | |
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| | the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong) | |
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| | Mao County in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture 阿壩藏族羌族自治州|阿坝藏族羌族自治州, northwest Sichuan | |
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| | Mao Yisheng (1896-1989), Chinese structural engineer and social activist | |
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| | sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences | |
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| | sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences (abbr. for 糖衣炮彈|糖衣炮弹) | |
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| | Chinese tunic suit / Mao jacket / CL: 件 | |
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| | Mao Sui (third century BC), who proverbially offered his services to the King of Chu 楚, see 毛遂自薦|毛遂自荐 | |
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| | Wang Ming (1904-1974), Soviet-trained Chinese communist, Comintern and Soviet stooge and left adventurist in the 1930s, fell out with Mao and moved to Soviet Union from 1956 | |
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| | Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東|毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader | |
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| | Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four | |
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| | Selected Works of Mao Zedong | |
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| | adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s) | |
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| | On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong | |
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| | Mao Zedong (1893-1976), leader of the Chinese Communist Party 1935-1976 | |
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| | Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎|张戎 and Jon Halliday | |
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| | the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to 毛主席語錄|毛主席语录) | |
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| | Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982 | |
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| | Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted | |
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| | Autumn Harvest Uprising (1927), insurrection in Hunan and Jiangxi provinces led by Mao Zedong | |
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| | Luo Yixiu (1889-1910), Mao Zedong's first wife | |
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| | Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established | |
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| | purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38) | |
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| | surname Mao | |
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| | modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you fall behind (quote of Mao Zedong) | |
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| | Fried Rice with Egg Festival, informally observed annually on November 25 as the anniversary of the death in 1950 of Mao Zedong's son Mao Anying, by people who are grateful that Mao's grip on China did not extend to a second generation (The younger Mao died in an American air raid in Korea, and, according to a popular account, his death was the result of cooking fried rice with egg, which produced smoke detected by US forces.) | |
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| | one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan) | |
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| | banknote in Jiao units (Mao, one-tenth of yuan) | |
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| | He Zizhen (1910-1984), Mao Zedong's third wife | |
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| | lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying) | |
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| | Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai | |
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| | Alai (1959-), ethnic Tibetan Chinese writer, awarded Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2000 for his novel 塵埃落定|尘埃落定 "Red Poppies" | |
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| | Marx, Lenin and Mao | |
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| | lit. to keep ding (the fourth heavenly stem) distinct from mao (the fourth earthly branch) (idiom) / fig. meticulous / conscientious / unambiguous | |
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| | thirty percent failure, seventy percent success, the official PRC verdict on Mao Zedong | |
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| | the Three Worlds (as proposed by Mao Zedong), i.e. the superpowers (USA and USSR), other wealthy countries (UK, France, Japan etc), and the developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America | |
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| | the Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention, a military doctrine issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong for the Red Army, which included a number of injunctions demanding high standards of behavior and respect for civilians during wartime | |
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| | socialism with Chinese characteristics, phrase introduced by the CCP in 1986 to refer to its ideological model, embracing the economic reforms of the post-Mao era | |
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| | people's war, military strategy advocated by Mao whereby a large number of ordinary citizens provide support in a campaign | |
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| | Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer | |
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| | 16-character formula, esp. Mao Zedong's mantra on guerrilla warfare: 敵進我退, 敵駐我擾, 敵疲我打, 敵退我追|敌进我退, 敌驻我扰, 敌疲我打, 敌退我追 when the enemy advances we retreat; when the enemy makes camp we harass; when the enemy is exhausted we fight; and when the enemy retreats we pursue | |
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| | Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957 | |
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| | Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957 | |
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| | the Great Helmsman (Mao Zedong) | |
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| | Peng Dehuai (1898-1974), top communist general, subsequently politician and politburo member, disgraced after attacking Mao's failed policies in 1959, and died after extensive persecution during the Cultural Revolution | |
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| | Rectification campaign / political purge / cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges | |
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| | Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife | |
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| | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, published from 1964 to about 1976 | |
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| | statue of Chairman Mao Zedong (1893-1976) 毛澤東|毛泽东 | |
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| | Mao Zedong Thought | |
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| | Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th | |
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