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...Siege at Peking, Peter Fleming, an able journalist (onetime London Times correspondent) turned military historian (Operation Sea Lion-TIME, July 22, 1957), does not dwell overlong on the corrupt, decaying empire of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, who was only too glad to turn the wrath of the masses from herself. Instead, he concentrates on the rise and fall of the hordes of shrieking peasants who called themselves "Fists of Righteous Harmony" ("Boxers," said a missionary, giving the rebellion its name). Against them for eight weeks stood a handful of isolated foreigners, including some of the great names of future...
...specialist since the 1920s, New York's Edward Hunter is fascinated by words and their meanings, especially as they apply to the conflicts between Communism and the free world. Around 1950 Hunter heard a Chinese friend, talking about the methods of the Red Chinese government, use the phrase hsi nao. Translating it, Hunter introduced a grim word to the cold war vocabulary: "brainwashing." Last week, appearing as a witness before the U.S. Senate's Internal Security Subcommittee, Author (BrainWashing in Red China) Hunter again showed his preoccupation with words, made a sharp point: "We are going...
Tract & Polemic. People's Daily, largest and most widely circulated journal ever published in China, is edited by shy, chain-smoking Wu Leng-hsi. who reportedly lost an eye fighting during the civil war. Wu is also director of the government's Hsinhua News Agency ("the ear and mouth of the Party. Government and People"), which is closely allied to People's Daily, has 31 bureaus in China and 23 overseas, e.g.. Geneva. London, Paris...
Communist China seems to be producing a class of discontented, semieducated intellectuals for whom there are no suitable jobs-a category in which Communism had made its strongest inroads in other parts of Asia and the Middle East. What to do with the idle educated? Said Education Minister Chang Hsi-jo: "Let them work in the fields and factories as in the Soviet Union. We must have the younger generation educated so they may know that revolution is painful...
Such masterpieces go far to explain the response made by the great nth century Painter Kuo Hsi, who asked: "Why does a virtuous man take delight in landscape?" His own reply: "Having no access to the landscape, the lover of forest and stream, the friend of mist and haze, enjoys them only in his dreams. How delightful then to have a landscape painted by a skilled hand! Without leaving the room, at once he finds himself among the streams and ravines; the cries of the birds and monkeys are faintly audible to his senses; light on the hills and reflections...