Maoize

present singular third person Maoizes · participle present Maoizing · participle past Maoized · past Maoized · alternative Maoise

1. To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong.

   This order was given just after Prince Sihanouk reacted against the attempt to "Maoize" Cambodia.

   1968, Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 57-70, page 29

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   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.

   1968, Atlas, page 27

   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.

   1968, The Current Digest of the Soviet Press - Volume 20, page 8

   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.

   1972, Gary E. McCuen, David L. Bender, American foreign policy: opposing viewpoints, page 72

2. To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution.

   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.

   1989, Naranarayan Das, Contemporary Chinese Politics And Foreign Policy, page 97

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   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.

   1981, Asian Survey - Volume 21, page 903

   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.

   1992, Ross Terrill, China in Our Time, page 81

   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.

   2016, Clare Harris, Photography and Tibet, page 146