cat / CL: 隻｜只 / (dialect) to hide oneself / (coll.) modem

hair / feather / down / wool / mildew / mold / coarse or semifinished / young / raw / careless / unthinking / nervous / scared / (of currency) to devalue or depreciate / classifier for Chinese fractional monetary unit ( = 角 , = one-tenth of a yuan or 10 fen 分)

surname Mao

to found a country / nation-building / the foundation of PRC by Mao Zedong in 1949

to not have (Cantonese) / Mandarin equivalent: 沒有｜没有

commerce / trade

hat / cap

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)

surname Mao

to emit / to give off / to send out (or up, forth) / to brave / to face / reckless / to falsely adopt (sb's identity etc) / to feign / (literary) to cover

luxuriant / (chemistry) cyclopentadiene

Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Chinese communist leader

Cydonia japonica

restless

yak (Bos grunniens)

surname Mao

reeds / rushes

appearance

very drunk / blotto / three sheets to the wind

variant of 卯

variant of 貌

old variant of 帽 / hat / cap

bang (hair) / fashionable / mane

anchor

mortise (slot cut into wood to receive a tenon) / 4th earthly branch: 5-7 a.m., 2nd solar month (6th March-4th April), year of the Rabbit / ancient Chinese compass point: 90° (east) / variant of 鉚｜铆 / to exert one's strength

extremely aged (in one's 80s or 90s) / octogenarian / nonagenarian

bang (hair) / fashionable / mane

to be hardworking / luxuriant / splendid

Selected Works of Mao Zedong / abbr. for 毛澤東選集｜毛泽东选集

Lao San Pian, three short essays written by Mao Zedong before the PRC was established

(jade)

indistinct vision / dim

spear / lance / pike

still water

length / distance from north to south

Mao Zedong Thought / Maoism

one Jiao coin (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)

Jiang Qing (1914-1991), Mao Zedong's fourth wife and leader of the Gang of Four

to fasten with rivets / (coll.) to exert one's strength

Mao Dun (1896-1981), Chinese novelist

Silkworms in Spring (1933), Chinese silent movie in socialist realist style, based on novel by Mao Dun 茅盾

variant of 茅 / thatch

type of water plant / (dialect) loess hills

Mt Mao, Daoist mountain southeast of Jurong county 句容, Jiangsu Province

banner decorated with animal's tail

variant of 耄

see 蝳蝐

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

round yellow dirt mount (in the Northwest of China)

War of Liberation (1945-49), after which the Communists 共產黨武裝｜共产党武装 under Mao Zedong 毛澤東｜毛泽东 took over from the Nationalists 國民政府｜国民政府 under Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石｜蒋介石

Chinese tunic suit / Mao jacket / CL: 件

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

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

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

banknote in Jiao units (Mao, one-tenth of yuan)

sugar-coated bullets, term used by Mao (originally in 1949) to refer to corrupting bourgeois influences

Jin Mao Tower, skyscraper in Shanghai

variant of 蟊

lit. the body is the revolution's capital / fig. good health is a prerequisite for work (Mao Zedong's saying)

old variant of 冒

the Pleiades

Spanish fly / grain-eating grub

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

having poor eyesight

select / vegetables

ancient place name

envious

old variant of 卯

Chairman Mao / Mao Zedong 毛澤東｜毛泽东 (1893-1976), Chinese Communist leader

the eagle soars in the sky (citation from Mao Zedong)

Yang Kaihui (1901-1930), Mao Zedong's second wife

Mao Dun Literature Prize, PRC prize for novel writing, awarded since 1982

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

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

the "Little Red Book" of selected writings of Mao Zedong (refers to 毛主席語錄｜毛主席语录)

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

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"

Rectification campaign / political purge / cf Mao's 1942-44 campaign at Yanan, and his 1950 and 1957 anti-rightist purges

Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang 張戎｜张戎 and Jon Halliday

Selected Works of Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory & the Three Represents / abbr. for 毛澤東思想｜毛泽东思想, 鄧小平理論｜邓小平理论 and 三個代表｜三个代表

Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957

old variant of 帽

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

adventurism (a left-wing error against Mao's line during the 1930s)

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to about 1976

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

Marx, Lenin and Mao

Liu Binyan (1925-2005), journalist and novelist, condemned by Mao as rightist faction in 1957, subsequently dissident writer

Jung Chang (1952-), British-Chinese writer, name at birth Zhang Erhong 張二鴻｜张二鸿, author of Wild Swans 野天鵝｜野天鹅 and Mao: The Unknown Story 毛澤東·鮮為人知的故事｜毛泽东·鲜为人知的故事

Anti-Rightist Movement, Mao's purge of "rightists" after the Hundred Flowers Campaign ended in 1957

purge of counterrevolutionaries (esp. Mao's purge of hidden counterrevolutionaries 1955-56 and Stalin's Great Purge 1936-38)

On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong

On the correct handling of internal contradictions among the people, Mao Zedong's tract of 1957

Modesty leads to progress, arrogance makes you drop behind (favorite slogan of Mao Zedong)

the Great Helmsman (Mao Zedong)

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

Hundred Flowers Campaign (PRC, 1956-57), in which Mao called for the taboo on discussing mistakes of the CCP to be lifted

leftist opportunism (blamed for failures of Chinese communists from 1927) / left adventurism / cf Mao's purges following 1935 Zunyi conference 遵義會議｜遵义会议

Mao Zedong’s birthday, December 26th