The East wind prevails over the West wind
Chinese | 东风压倒西风 |
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Coined by | Mao Zedong |
The East wind prevails over the West wind[1] (Chinese: 东风压倒西风; pinyin: dōngfēng yādǎo xīfēng),[2] alternatively translated as the east wind overwhelms the west wind,[3] the East wind is prevailing over the West wind, or socialism will prevail over capitalism,[4] is a slogan coined by Mao Zedong[5] in the early 1950s, when he referred to the east wind as the socialist camp and the West wind as the Western capitalist societies.[6] The implication of this statement is that the forces of socialism have overwhelmingly surpassed the forces of imperialism.[7]
"The East wind prevails over the West wind" was borrowed by Mao Zedong from the classical novel Dream of the Red Chamber[8] in which Lin Daiyu said, "In all families, either the East Wind prevails over the West Wind, or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind".[9] In the book, East and West are not seen as representing different sets of beliefs or values.
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- ^ Ronald C. Keith (18 June 1989). Diplomacy of Zhou Enlai. Palgrave Macmillan UK. pp. 104–. ISBN 978-1-349-09890-3.
- ^ Fu Jin (20 July 2021). A History of Chinese Theatre in the 20th Century III. Routledge. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-1-00-038442-0.
- ^ Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique. Duke University Press. 2006. pp. 15–.
- ^ ""East wind prevails over the West wind" Worries the West". BBC News. 2017-09-05.
- ^ Wang Xichang (2006). Chinese slogan for a hundred years. Baihuazhou Literature and Art Press. ISBN 978-7-80647-524-9.
- ^ Janet Vinzant Denhardt (2007). The New Public Service, Expanded Edition: Serving, Not Steering. M.E. Sharpe. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-0-7656-2181-8.
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