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...China these days is conflicting, fragmentary and often outrageously exaggerated. But out of all the bits of information last week, one conclusion was unmistakable: the army is being given more and more power. Under the chop mark of Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, his wife Chiang Ching and other government leaders, a terse command went out to military garrisons across the land telling them to take control of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution and restore order...
...Szechwan, there were no gains to lose. Large, populous (80 million) and strongly separatist, Szechwan represents a challenge to Mao's central authority and to the validity of the Cultural Revolution. Its political and military boss since 1952 has been tough Politburo Member Li Ching-chuan, 59, who earlier tacitly aided the anti-Maoists and was linked with Red Army Marshal Ho Lung, a onetime warlord and bandit, in a purported plot to depose Mao last February...
...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...
...Moscow. Born of working-class parents in Shantung province, Chiang Ching (meaning Green River) migrated to Shanghai, China's sin city of the '30s, where she became an actress under the stage name of Blue Apple. It was hardly a step up, since in old China actors and barbers were among the lowest of the low-partly because, like servants, they had to stand to perform their jobs. She was, in any case, only a grade B actress; after she married Mao, he had all of her films destroyed. But that was years later. First...
That marriage foundered, too, in the confusion of China's civil war. Her first husband meanwhile set out to join Mao's Communist rebels, who had four years earlier made the Long March to the caves of Yenan, and Chiang Ching went with him. There she met Mao, 20 years her senior and then married to his third wife, the mother of his five children. The encounter was, as the Chinese tell it, like "dried firewood on roaring fire." Mao made Chiang Ching his private secretary and shipped his wife off to Moscow for "psychiatric treatment...