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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article on Mao's wife Chiang Ch'ing [March 21] was fascinating. Her fangs and horns faded away as I read, and a real woman emerged...
...photograph above is from TIME'S Chiang Ch'ing cover story. The lower one is from a commemorative issue of China Pictorial, November 1976, on Mao Tse-tung...
Chiang Ch'ing then went on to say, "Comrades like the Premier and myself were on the side of Chairman Mao. They [Lin Piao's Ultra-Left] set fires everywhere, and we acted like a fire brigade. [In 1971] Chairman Mao continually advised the Premier on how to deal with such clashes, but Mao's ideas were not easily carried out. During the peak of the crisis she flew to the side of the Premier several times to help "cool things down." Constant threats, divisiveness among the people, and conspiratorial actions made it almost impossible for them...
Like Paris in the Belle Epoque or Berlin in the '20s, Shanghai in the '30s was not only a city but a state of mind. When Chiang Ch'ing arrived in 1933, it was an Oriental boom town that neither Japanese aggression nor worldwide Depression could seriously daunt. Since the late '20s its population had grown by a third, to well over 3 million, its real estate values had trebled, and skyscrapers had pierced its once low skyline. At the same time-such was the city's schizophrenia-Shanghai contained vast pockets of poverty...
Shanghai catered to the mind as well as the body, however, and ideas and ideologies throve and warred in its fevered atmosphere. Except for Chinese opera, there was little commercial theater in China, but young performers like Chiang Ch'ing vied to appear at coolie wages in dozens of small, semiprofessional theaters-an off-off Nanking Road. Most of the plays were dreary ideological tracts, melodramas or translations of Western plays, like those of Ibsen or Shaw, that were deemed by one of the dozens of left-wing sects to have a social message. One of Chiang...