Maoize

English

Alternative forms

• Maoise

Etymology

Mao +‎ -ize

Verb

Maoize (third-person singular simple present Maoizes, present participle Maoizing, simple past and past participle Maoized)

1. To bring under the political control of Mao Zedong.
   • 1968, Atlas, page 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.

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

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

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

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

2. To cause to conform to the ideology of Mao Zedong and his Cultural Revolution.
   • 1981, Asian Survey - Volume 21, page 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.

   • 1989, Naranarayan Das, Contemporary Chinese Politics And Foreign Policy, page 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.

   • 1992, Ross Terrill, China in Our Time, page 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.

   • 2016, Clare Harris, Photography and Tibet, page 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.