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...first dismissed as the annual student itch. Not until the movement spread early last month to Shanghai (pop. 12 million), with its 200,000 university students and history as a hotbed of radical movements, did the government take notice. Explained a local citizen: "A demonstration in Changsha ((in Hunan province)) causes a tremor, but one in Shanghai causes a quake...
...theory. The other is that he is desperately ill and has actually been thrust aside-the "vegetable God" theory. Mao at 81 has appeared drawn and fragile in recent photographs, but during the Central Committee plenum, he was well enough to receive Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta in Changsha, capital of his native Hunan province; while the People's Congress was in session, he met with West German Political Leader Franz Josef Strauss. It is one thing, however, for Mao to chat for short periods with visiting dignitaries, but quite another to sit through days of intensive political...
...autopsy: Lady Li died of an apparent heart attack. Although there was nothing unusual about the cause of her death, the post-mortem examination at Hunan Medical College was somewhat out of the ordinary; Lady Li, whose body was unearthed from a tomb outside the central Chinese city of Changsha, died at the age of 50 some 2,100 years...
...salt merchant, but he always wanted to be a soldier -and a revolutionary. At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt...
...about it. Born in Oregon, he graduated from Linfield College, decided to become a missionary, but first went east for further study at Yale. He took a doctorate in Far Eastern history, and joined the university's fledgling Yale-in-China program, which supported a daughter college at Changsha. Latourette spent two years as a teacher in China, and returned to the U.S. because of poor health. He began his 41 years as a professor at the Yale Divinity School in 1921. Between classes, Latourette squeezed in an impressive variety of nonacademic chores: he was one of the founding...