Maoize

English Alternative forms en Maoise Etymology From en Mao ize. Verb To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong. en 1968 Atlas 27 In the second half of the Sixties Mao's foreign policy has proved fruitless. He has not carried out his most intelligent plans. His attempts to "Maoize" Indonesia, and in one stroke grab various Indian Ocean lands, served only to strengthen the Indonesian reaction. en 1968 Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 57-70 29 This order was given just after Prince Sihanouk reacted against the attempt to "Maoize" Cambodia. en 1968 The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 20 8 The attempt to "Maoize" Indonesia and thereby break through to the Indian Ocean at one leap, gripping that area's other countries from the south in a nutcracker, did not succeed and resulted in strengthening the Indonesian reactionaries' position. en 1972 American foreign policy: opposing viewpoints Gary E. McCuen; David L. Bender 72 Peking wishes to "Maoize" Southeast Asia, minus "lndochina" which they are willing to cede to Hanoi, and to dislocate lndia which conceivably would be divided along ethnic lines, with most or all ethnic groups under Maoist rule. To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution. en 1981 Asian Survey - Volume 21 903 But from the 1950s onwards the radical politics pursued at home, such as the communization of the economy and the campaign to Maoize the political and social behavior of the masses, brought about a head-on collision with the Muslim minority. en 1989 Contemporary Chinese Politics And Foreign Policy Naranarayan Das 97 After Mao's death, the new leadership gradually decided to de-Maoize China and so begins the de-emphasis of the role of ideology, but in the process they had to project a counter-ideology. en 1992 China in Our Time Ross Terrill 81 That Peking was not trying to take back Hong Kong, but rather encouraging it to "Maoize" under Britain's trembling gaze, suggested to me that the Cultural Revolution was more political indoctrination than a drive for institutionalized political change. en 2016 Photography and Tibet Clare Harris 146 What is not so clear is that this series was actually inspired by the paintings of a Han Chinese artist, Chen Danqing, who lived in Tibet in the 1960s and '70s and specialized in portraits of Tibetans who had been neither modernized nor Maoized. Derived terms en Maoization en eponyms en Maoism