mao ze-dongとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

• From the historical figure Mao Zedong (毛泽东 - Máo Zédōng), the Chinese communist revolutionary leader.

固有名詞

Mao Zedong

1. (figuratively) A revolutionary leader, particularly a communist, socialist, or major reformist.
   • 1985, Roger Lichtenberg Simon, California Roll: A Moses Wine Detective Novel, Villard Books, ISBN 0394537114, pg. 69:

     "And the Lenin, the Mao Zedong, of this revolution," continued Brisbane, "is sitting among us tonight."

   • 1990, Endymion Porter Wilkinson, Japan versus the West: image and reality, Penguin Books, ISBN 0140126368, pg. 137:

     Yoshida Tabuchi, known as the 'Mao Zedong of Nomura' - in part because of a slight physical resemblance … but more because like Mao, Tabuchi wields…

   • 2000, K.S. Bharathi, Mahatma Gandhi: Man of the millennium, S. Chand, ISBN 8121919975, pg. 59:

     His thirty year role as the 'Mao Zedong' of India ended with the partition of India into India, and Pakistan, as the Super Powers divided up the Middle East.

   • 2001, Ronald S. Jonash and Tom Sommerlatte, The Innovation Premium: How Next Generation Companies Are Achieving Peak Performance and Profitability, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0738203602, pg. 30:

     In fact, CEO Levin has been called the Mao Zedong of biotech, eager to buy or use other people's technology to facilitate what he believes should be a continuous revolution in both technology and organization.

   • 2007, Peter Popham, "Gaddafi turns screenwriter for $40m epic about Italian invasion," The Independent, 3 November 2007, [1]:

     Thirty years ago with his little Green Book and his "Third Universal Theory", he proposed himself as the Mao Zedong of the Middle East, fashioning what he claimed to be a new ideology from the patriarchal customs of his clan.