Word: chou
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Even Chang Chun-chiao, an erstwhile member of the radicals' Shanghai bastion, seemed converted to the moderate side, an apostasy that many China watchers have suspected for months. There was an odd juxtaposition in the speeches released last week that were delivered to the Congress by Chou and Chang. Chou, the quintessential moderate, gave a report replete with leftist catch phrases and praise for the Cultural Revolution and the "socialist newborn things"; the supposedly radical Chang, meanwhile, steered clear of leftist slogans and instead emphasized the need for "both discipline and freedom." It was a superb illustration not only...
...sure, Chou has needed every bit of that adroitness to survive for some four decades as chief of staff to a notoriously headstrong, frequently whimsical and incontestably brilliant commander. More than once, Mao has set Sinologists to puzzling over a sudden switch in policy or a seemingly inexplicable action. Last week he had them at it again. Why had he been absent from both the Central Committee plenum and the Congress? "I did a double take when I read the communiqué-the lack of Mao was so striking," said one senior U.S. Government analyst. "We are so used...
Outgoing Stance. Moreover, Mao has approved many of the initiatives taken by Chou since his loyal Premier began turning China toward moderation. In foreign affairs, for example, Mao has emphatically sanctioned Chou's outgoing stance by meeting with the numerous foreign leaders who have paraded to Peking, including old enemies like Richard Nixon. Without Mao's blessing, it would have been impossible for Chou to batter down the walls that kept China closed to most outsiders for two decades. China now has formal diplomatic relations with 100 countries and trade links with nearly...
...evidence is that in his final days, Mao, with the ready assent of the versatile Chou, feels the need to bring more stable patterns to China and abandon-or at least temper-the rash experiments and the tumultuous campaigns for ideological purity. In true pragmatic style, Chou appears to be blocking out a program that will incorporate those things that have worked well as Mao sought, first one way and then another, to build a modern industrial state without at the same time creating a privileged technocratic elite...
...Under Chou's tutelage during the past several years, China has adopted many of the radical innovations of the Cultural Revolution-with mixed results. For example, the May Seventh Cadre Schools, where officials went for 14-week sessions to be cleansed of bureaucratic, "commandistic" habits, have become a regular part of Chinese life. There are hundreds of them across the country, but they are no longer revolutionary shock-therapy centers so much as routine training camps. Similarly, in higher education, the impact of the Cultural Revolution is still pervasive. Only 167,000, or 1.5%, of middle school graduates...