Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of teh People's Repbulic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply
Mao .
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- noun Chinese communist leader (1893-1976)
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
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We're into an orgy of sin and confession right now that brings to mind the old Stalinist show trials of the 1930s and the culture of confession practiced by the Chinese government since the days of Mao Tse-tung.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
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At that time, the rise of Deng seemed just another twist in the operatic political struggles in China that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung that same year.
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"You'll negotiate with Mao Tse-tung, yet you cut off an 8-year-old," Colbert teased him.
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At that time, the rise of Deng seemed just another twist in the operatic political struggles in China that followed the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the death of Mao Tse-tung that same year.
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We're into an orgy of sin and confession right now that brings to mind the old Stalinist show trials of the 1930s and the culture of confession practiced by the Chinese government since the days of Mao Tse-tung.
Fortune's Stanley Bing: Anthony Weiner, Sarah Palin and the Case Against Apology
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"You'll negotiate with Mao Tse-tung, yet you cut off an 8-year-old," Colbert teased him.
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The Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung was so extreme an ideologue that the Soviet Union had broken with its former ally.
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