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Harrison Salisbury, the veteran New York Times correspondent and popular historian, comes right out and calls Mao an emperor -- and not the first one to take power through a peasant rebellion. Precisely because Mao was a peasant, he was unprepared to govern China and modernize it. A "pseudo- Marxist" bored by statistics and budgets, Mao was interested mainly in class warfare and "mobilization of the masses," who he was convinced could do anything if properly exhorted...
...Salisbury does not see it. Deng, a "moderate" and pragmatist, was willing to shed as much blood as necessary to put down the Tiananmen Square democracy movement in 1989. His position, like Mao's, was "if he saw himself challenged, he was bound to destroy the challenger." The next emperor, Salisbury predicts, will probably be as pragmatic as Deng. But like Deng he will hold tightly to power and will be ready to order China, as emperors did in dynasties past, "Obey -- and tremble...
BOOKS The chaos, cruelty and corruption of emperor Mao's reign...
...women who played key roles in the Second World War. "TIME Covers the War: Personalities from World War II" spans the period from Jan. 3, 1938, when General and Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China were on the cover, to May 21, 1945, when Japan's Emperor Hirohito was rendered as the divine "Son of Heaven." Also included: Joseph Stalin as the 1942 Man of the Year, General Douglas MacArthur upon his triumphant return to the Philippines in October 1944 and Adolf Hitler following his suicide...
Same Texts, Different Contexts: Japanese Uses of the K'ang-hsi Emperor's Teachings, 1721-1943--by De-Min Tao, postdoctoral fellow, Reischauer Institute. Coolidge Hall, room 2, 4 p.m. Come and gain the secrets of Japanese economic dominance...