| 思想 | sī xiǎng | thought / thinking / idea / ideology / CL:個|个[ge4] |   |
| 观念 | guān niàn | notion / thought / concept / sense / views / ideology / general impressions | |
| 主义 | zhǔ yì | -ism / ideology | |
| 意识形态 | yì shí xíng tài | ideology | |
| 政治思想 | zhèng zhì sī xiǎng | political thought / ideology | |
| 思想体系 | sī xiǎng tǐ xì | system of thought / ideology | |
| 独尊 | dú zūn | to revere as sole orthodoxy / to hold supremacy (of a religion, ideology, cultural norm, social group etc) / to be dominant | |
| 五七干校 | wǔ qī gàn xiào | May 7 cadre school (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. for 五七幹部學校|五七干部学校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 bu4 Xue2 xiao4]) | |
| 五七干部学校 | wǔ qī gàn bù xué xiào | May 7 Cadre School (farm where urban cadres had to undertake manual labor and study ideology during the Cultural Revolution) (abbr. to 五七幹校|五七干校[Wu3 Qi1 Gan4 xiao4]) | |
| 以虚带实 | yǐ xū dài shí | to let correct ideology guide practical work (idiom) | |
| 四清运动 | Sì qīng Yùn dòng | the Four Cleanups Movement (1963-66), which aimed to cleanse the politics, economy, organization and ideology of the Communist Party | |
| 物质文明和精神文明 | wù zhì wén míng hé jīng shén wén míng | material and spiritual culture / matter and mind / material progress, ideology and culture (philosophic slogan, adopted into Deng Xiaoping theory from 1978) | |
| 罢黜百家，独尊儒术 | bà chù bǎi jiā , dú zūn rú shù | Dismiss the hundred schools, revere only the Confucian (idiom) / sole dominant ideology | |
| 主体思想 | Zhǔ tǐ Sī xiǎng | Juche Idea (North Korean ideology of political, economic and military independence) | |
