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Nonetheless, there have been some corridors of advancement open. Although it is probably the least powerful of the major institutions in China, the government bureaucracy (headed by Chou En-Lai) has provided a fair possibility for advancement. For example, 28 per cent of the cabinet ministers in 1960 were Central Committee members, but by early 1966 only 18 per cent were on the Central Committee. Similarly, 46 per cent of the provincial governors were Central Committee members in 1960, but now the figure is only 27 per cent. It is necessary to re-emphasize, however, that the "newcomers...
...Over steaming cups of tea, Chou professed to be weary of the negotiations, said that he would like to visit the U.S. "to study your impressive techniques of modern production." Wrote Luce later: "I must record the utter confidence as well as the good humor with which Chou En-lai spoke to me. While he didn't say so in so many words, I had the chilling feeling that he expected soon to be in control of all China. At the end of my stay, I figured he was right. I knew the Marshall mission had failed." Just before...
...repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian dignitaries and the annual rubber-stamp session of the Chinese Parliament. As 10,000 Red Guards stared up at a triple-tiered ceiling studded with stars, Premier Chou En-lai appeared onstage. What ensued last week was the stiffest rebuke that the Guards have received to date-and an indication that China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is in danger of choking on its own absurdities...
...Peking itself is not entirely subjugated (fully ten of the city's districts are unsafe for Maoism). The rest of the capital, indeed much of the country, remains in chaos. Although many Red Guards last week were leaving for home and school as ordered by Premier Chou En-lai (TIME, Feb. 17), there were many more who found their first taste of power too heady to listen to Chou's orders. Since the Cultural Revolution began, complained the New China News Agency, "wrong tendencies have emerged in the revolutionary ranks"-specifically because, once they have taken power...
Premier Chou En-lai also ordered the Guards to slack off in their humiliations of purged party officials, many of whom have been forced to wear dunce caps while being dragged through city streets...