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...young man and a people's fighter. I think of all the oppressed people in places yet to be liberated. If you think of your own splendid days of youth without seeing other people's youth and happiness, you need to caution yourself." Diary of Liu Ying-chun, a young soldier...
...Communist Chinese newspapers ran excerpts from Liu Ying-chun's diary under large headlines this July, just before the Red Guards began their summer campaign. The young students defaced statues and harangued crowds on behalf of the Revolution and against revisionism, but also paid tribute to men like Liu, whose ideas (heavily edited, perhaps created, by the Party) Mao Tse-tung considers so exemplary...
...victims were the usual intellectuals and teachers, whose mortality rate has always been high in China: Ho Luting, president of the Shanghai Musical College and composer of The East Is Red; Philosopher Feng Ting of Peking University; Opera Singer Chou Hsin-fang (rumored to have committed suicide). Even President Liu Shao-chi, 68, who had long been listed as Mao's most likely successor, was dropped from his No. 2 spot to a distant eighth in the succession ratings. Events reached a climax at last month's secret Central Committee meeting, from which Lin emerged even more clearly...
Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...
...regularly wears civilian clothes, turned out in a soldier's uniform identical to Lin's. Later, when the official list of dignitaries present at the rally was published, Lin's name appeared just under Mao's. Red China's longtime No. 2 man, Theoretician Liu Shao-chi, 68, was in seventh place...