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Hints that China was embarked on a new cycle of radicalism began appearing at the same time as last August's Tenth Party Congress. In typically arcane fashion, the campaign started with what seemed to be an academic argument over the failings of Confucius. He was criticized in party publications for wanting to restore slavery in China 2,500 years ago. Then the campaign was broadened by linking Confucius to former Defense Minister Lin Piao who died after an anti-Mao coup attempt in 1971. Lin, like Confucius, was charged with trying to restore a discarded system...
Newfangled Ideas. Chiang Ching and her colleagues, this group of Sinologists noted, had been behind recent attacks on Confucius, which, as everyone in China seemed to know, was really their way of denouncing the pragmatists led by Premier Chou Enlai. The ball is now back in Chiang Ching's court, and who knows how she will show her wrath against Chou's group? Will she lash out at such modern composers as Bartdk and Stravinsky, assuming that everyone realizes she means you-know-who and his newfangled ideas? Or will she defiantly schedule a Peking Beethoven Festival...
...Rhythmic vitality" comes close to its sense, for the Chinese considered a painting to manifest ch'i if the "spirit" of its subject was translated into the movements of the artist's hand and then to the ink marks. The idea is that of Confucius: "Only the truly intelligent understand the principle of identity. They do not view things as apprehended by themselves subjectively, but transfer themselves into the position of the things viewed...
...scare stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...show. But even with their star quarterback, the Columbia band doesn't score like the Yale Band. The Eli are what you might call a ground-oriented team; seeking the dirt and crawling through the opposition. What the Columbia band says, the Yale band works out on the field. Confucius liked pictures even better than music or words. Who cares what the Yale band sounds like when you've got such audio-visual aids? Yale...