Word: chu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inevitably, some of the critics went beyond the bounds outlined by Chairman Mao in his now famous "secret" speeches (TIME, May 27 et seq.). Chu An Ping, editor of the Kwangming Daily, which speaks for Red China's eight tame "democratic" parties, had the temerity to suggest criticism of Mao himself: "People have raised many opinions against the junior monks, but no one has yet said anything about the old monks...
...that he was looking for noxious weeds to bare their heads to the party scythe. He had to wait awhile; it was weeks after Mao's "rectification" campaign began before China's timid intellectuals found the courage to raise their voices. For his attack on Mao, Editor Chu An Ping was suspended from his party. General Lung's co-workers publicly rebuked him for "slandering the Soviet Union with malice." Critics could expect vigorous counter-criticism, but as yet there was-no evidence that they would suffer worse. The basic fact about their criticism is that...
Passed from one to another by his expatriate fellow countrymen, Reporter Val Chu, in the U.S. after six years as a member of TIME'S Hong Kong news staff, conducted a month-long survey of the Communist pressures at work on Chinese students in the U.S. His report...
...accomplished singer, composer and conductor, Chu had a special knack for getting along with the young. Soon after his arrival in Bangkok, they were flocking by the hundreds to listen to his lectures and to hear him play and sing. Chu extended his visitor's visa and took up more or less permanent residence at the leading Chinese anti-Communist headquarters...
...night a fortnight ago, after an exceptionally crowded meeting at the headquarters building, during which his young enthusiasts had kept him answering questions about musical theory until well after 11 p.m., Chu went upstairs to the small room he used as a bedchamber. A few hours later, a passer-by noticed flames spurting from the lower floors of the all but empty building. He raced to turn in an alarm, but by the time the firemen arrived the whole place was ablaze. Cut off from escape by the collapse of a wooden staircase, the visiting music professor was burned...