Word: liu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fractious that chances are Mao could not rein them in all by himself; in any event, he appears too fearful of a rebuff to try. As for the party, Mao quite openly distrusts it, fearing that the loyalty of many party members still belongs to his archenemy, President Liu Shao-chi. Mao had little choice but to place his bet on the army. Yet there are questions about the army too. It is divided into political factions, and half of its officers have been hauled up before one type of revolutionary committee or another and scolded for not being...
...drive to tear up all roots that bind China to Western culture, many top artists and performers are going through the same hell that Ma did. It was reported that Liu Shih-kun, topflight pianist and runner-up to Van Cliburn at the Moscow Tchaikovsky festival in 1958, had his wrists broken by Red Guards. Hung Hsien-nu, Canton's best-known opera singer, was tried by kangaroo courts, had her hair bobbed, and now works sweeping floors. Chou Hsin-fang, star of the Peking opera, and elderly Author Lao She (known in the West for Rickshaw Boy) have...
...class onto the garbage heap!" and "Sweep the Khrushchev of China into the dustbin of history!" The man so described by these sanitation-minded youngsters, who also referred to him as "a paper tiger," the "big shot" and the "main root of revisionism," was Red China's President Liu Shao-chi, the chief foe of Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The renewed attacks on Liu showed that Mao and his followers have not yet succeeded in winning the day; they also signaled a new phase in China's upheaval after several weeks...
Final Accounts. Cranking up the Red Guards anew just to attack Liu Shao-chi seems an excess in itself. The best Western intelligence is that ever since October Liu has been President of China in name only, barred from all Politburo sessions and public affairs of state. He last appeared in public on Nov. 25. His name is no longer affixed to official telegrams to other heads of state. He may still be permitted to go to his office and await dispatches and memos that never come. He may be under some form of detention, either imprisonment or, more likely...
...Liu is already powerless, why should Mao unleash what Peking radio called "mass rallies wrathfully denouncing the crimes" of Liu and vowing "to resolutely destroy him?" Best explanation: Liu is the symbol of continuing resistance to Mao's revolution throughout the party and cadre structure, which Liu himself spent 20 years building. A Red Guard leader addressing a Peking rally allowed as much, explaining that "final accounts" must be settled against Liu because "only by destroying his sinister headquarters can we ensure the recapture of the party, and political, financial and cultural power...