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Latest victims were two widely respected intellectuals, Central Committee Member Yang Hsien-chen, party the oretician and former president of the elite Higher Party School, and Historian (and onetime English professor) Chou Ku-cheng, whose General History of China has been a standard work for nearly 30 years. Their crime was pure heresy: contradicting Mao's infallible doctrine that "everything tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept...
Historian Chou went even farther. According to the Peking People's Daily, he was "in recent years" teaching the "convergence of all ideologies - the revolutionary, the unrevolutionary, the nonrevolutionary, and even the anti-revolutionary." Charged the newspaper angrily: "There is no 'convergence,' but only round after round of struggle as a result of which either you or I will live...
...probability, the criticism was no life-or-death matter for Yang or Chou. But disgrace was doom enough for the pair since it presumably means they will publish no more books and teach no more classes. Which might go to prove their point that even the class struggle has its limits...
...intense tragicomic ironies of those two flawed masterpieces, Monsieur Verdoux and Limelight. But it is uneven and uncommunicative about his many loves and his vociferous left-wing politics, supplying instead great heaps of anecdotes about his encounters with famous people from Einstein and Gandhi to Pablo Casals, Chou Enlai, and Khrushchev...
Many China watchers conclude that Chou may be seriously ill, and perhaps is under treatment by the Italian specialist in heart ailments who was recently summoned to China supposedly to treat Party Boss Mao Tse-tung. There remains one other possibility: Chou En-lai may be in seclusion preparing the groundwork for the often postponed party congress, which has not met since 1956, though supposed to assemble every four years...