Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overzealous & Dishonest. But as time went by, a subtle change came over the agricultural pronouncements. Premier Chou En-lai hinted to the National People's Congress that "output for any particular year may be lower than in the previous year." Meanwhile, the kept press began to erupt with nasty comments about local functionaries who had been "overzealous" and even downright dishonest in their estimates of what their farms were yielding. Kwangtung province, for instance, had produced not 34 million tons of grain, as claimed, but only 30. There had been, said the People's Daily, "little...
...along with Peking no matter what. "I hope," said he, "that the government of India will give our cause the same support, if not more, as it has given to small countries like Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia." As for a meeting between Nehru and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai on Tibet, that might be useful-"provided the actual events in Tibet are considered in true perspective...
...Reds had links with Shanghai, too, but no liking for it. The Communist Party of China was Shanghai-born in 1921; Red leaders, including Chou En-lai and Liu Shao-chi, had fought in its streets for control of the city workers-and lost. Mao Tse-tung viewed Shanghai with suspicion, believed that it was the "City of the Five Too-Manys": too many rascals, robbers, opium smokers, thieves and prostitutes...
...handsome" woman from Tientsin. One of his four sons was executed by the Kuomintang; a daughter went to school in Moscow and married a Spanish Communist. Sharp-tongued and humorless, Liu Shao-chi has flicked a raw spot on nearly everyone around him. When Premier Chou En-lai suggested in a speech that no one could be considered faultless, he was forced to admit that "Chairman Mao and Comrade Liu Shao-chi and a few other leaders have achieved the stage of perfection." Liu even opposed Mao Tse-tung on the "let a hundred flowers bloom" theory and-in Communist...
Speed Gets 'Em. Western specialists on Chinese affairs regard Communist statistics about their great leap forward as blatantly inflated. But instead of modifying them, the Communists multiplied them last week, making vast progress by statistical exhortation. Blandly, Chou En-lai advanced the claim that Red China's industrial and agricultural output increased by 65% in 1958-"a speed which has never been attained and cannot be attained under the capitalist system." No less fantastic were the production targets announced for this year: 18 million tons of steel (up 54% over 1958), 380 million tons of coal...