| 单词 | thought reform |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthought reform thought reform n. a process of individual political indoctrination used in communist China; (also in extended use) changing the way a person thinks. [Apparently originally after Japanese shisō-kaikaku ( < shisō thought (see thought crime n.) + kaikaku reform ( < Middle Chinese)). With reference to China after Chinese sīxiǎng gǎizào (Mao Zedong 1951; < sīxiǎng thought, ideology + gǎizào to reform, transform). Compare earlier thought control n.] ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > [noun] > political indoctrination thought reform1944 1944 W. Lamott Nippon x. 152 Grade schoolteachers..became the nuclei of a ‘thought reform system’ radiating from the schools. 1951 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 24 Oct. 15/2 Despite this triumph, Mao said, the nation must look forward to further austerity, and further ‘thought reform’ among the intelligentsia. 1964 J. M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. x. 134 Great interest has been aroused by Chinese thought reform, because it has been used on a very wide scale with considerable success and because the methods used are novel. 1981 J. Bancroft in S. Bloch & P. Chodoff Psychiatric Ethics ix. 174 ‘Thought reform’ techniques and aversion therapy. 1994 W. Shaw Spying in Guru Land (1995) v. 135 The few who are left by this stage in the course, are simply those who want to believe. I witness nothing that could be called thought reform, or brainwashing. < as lemmas |
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