Word: chen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself knew just how bad the situation really was. What was clear was that more and more elements of the army were siding with the anti-Maoists in the provinces in a spreading disaffection directly traceable to the by-now-famed incident in Wuhan. There, three weeks ago, General Chen Tsai-tao, whose command includes the vital Yangtze River hub city, seized two top Mao emissaries sent from Peking to bring Chen to heel. Peking negotiated the pair's release; but despite frantic efforts since then, Mao has been unable to subdue the open rebellion in Wuhan...
RESCUE COMRADES HSIEH FU-CHIH AND WANG LI!, STRANGLE CHEN TSAI...
DEATH! and LIBERATE WUHAN! Radio Peking broadcast an ultimatum ordering the rebels to surrender or be wiped out by the Chinese army. Amid this show of force, Premier Chou Enlai, Peking's most experienced mediator, quietly went to work behind the scenes to negotiate with General Chen for the release of the two prisoners. He succeeded, and last week the freed emissaries returned to Peking and a hero's welcome at the airport by Maoist officials including Chou and Mrs. Mao and tens of thou sands of cheering Pekingese...
...moment, Red China's new architect of education, Chen Pota, encouraged by such relative moderates as Chou Enlai, is engaged in a titanic effort to get Chinese students headed back into the schoolrooms. An "urgent appeal" to primary-and secondary-school pupils to return went out last February, and similar orders were given for college and university students in March. But as of last week, only 31 of China's 840 universities and colleges had resumed classes on even a token level, and the percentage of secondary schools open was just as low. In most cases the schoolrooms...
Hippie-Type Wanderers. Prior to last summer, "our educational system was still something that had not changed its form since the Ch'ing dynasty and had traces of Soviet revisionism in it," declared Chen Pota at a Peking University lecture recently. Now, in line with Mao's doctrine of putting politics in command, the humanities faculties will use Mao's work as textbooks and the class struggle will be the main subject. Mao-think will even apply to the sciences; students are now revising some of the work previously done in mathematics, physics and foreign languages...