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...Canton, N.Y. is well known for two things. It is the home of St. Lawrence University and a city with one of the highest percentages of bars per capital income in the country...
...Republic. Madame Mao's personal life was said to be like that of the 7th century Empress Wu, notorious for her extravagance and lubricity. Accordingly, Chiang Ch'ing ordered every insect killed and every leaf dusted by her minions before she would venture to visit a Canton botanical garden. During bouts of insomnia, the imperious lady issued orders that work at a nearby noisy shipbuilding factory be stopped. So sensitive was she to noise that she once ordered her waiters to deliver her food while walking on tiptoe...
...herself was accused on wall posters of trying to murder Mao. Some said she had "nagged" him to death; others claimed she "ignored the doctor's advice and wanted to move [Mao] from his sickbed, trying in vain to kill him." The deputy political commissar of Canton also denounced "the self-styled student of our leader"-a reference to the fact that Chiang Ch'ing's wreath at Mao's funeral had been signed "your student and comrade-in-arms." One wall poster in Shanghai bluntly accused Mao's widow-a onetime movie actress-with...
...jung, a Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs; the other was American-educated Nancy T'ang, the late Chairman's trusted interpreter. Radio Peking claimed that some 3.3 million people had taken to the streets in the Chinese capital and more than 4 million in Shanghai. In Canton, sessions of that city's twice yearly Trade Fair for foreign businessmen were called off, presumably to allow the people to participate in the campaign...
Throughout the country, as Mao became ever more feeble and close to death, the authority of his government seemed to weaken. As early as the end of 1974, an extraordinary 77-page wall poster put up in Canton set forth a comprehensive indictment of the way China was being run at that time. Written by a group of young intellectuals who used the pseudonym Li I-che, the wall poster condemned China as a place where "no one is allowed to think, no one is allowed to do research, and no one is allowed to ask a single...