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...severely. Land reform became not a matter of justice, but a brutal stamping out of landlords and recalcitrants, a mass injustice in which all had to participate and to share the complicity. Even inside the party there is loyalty trouble. Item: ". . . It is of paramount necessity," warned Party Dogmatist Liu Shao-chi last February, "that at this crucial stage all comrades . . . must wage unrelenting struggle against those who deliberately undermine party unity, stand up against the party, persist in refusing to correct their errors...
...Liu Shao-chi, about 50, vice chairman of the Politburo, secretary of the Central Committee. Little known but very powerful. Close to Mao, and said by some to be the heir apparent. Theorist and dogmatist of the party and, like Stalin and Malenkov in Russia, the one who controls its elaborate apparatus. He was practically unknown outside the party a decade ago; his first book, How to Be a Good Communist, introduced him in 1939 as a prime dialectician. Married: twice (first wife killed by Kuomintang troops in 1934). Children: a son and daughter of whom it has been said...
...countryside and instituting a "veritable reign of terror-looting, pillaging, raping and murdering." The Burmese said that the original Li Mi force of 1,700 men had been built up into an army of 12,000 by local recruiting, and was now commanded by Chinese Nationalist General Liu Kuo-chuan. The whereabouts of General Li Mi was now something of a mystery: the Nationalists say he is in Formosa recovering from a stroke; the Burmese say he was almost captured there a week...
...China, by Liu Shaw-tong. A straight and human account & of life under Mao Tse-tung's new order, by a young Chinese who took a close look, then ran for his life (TIME...
...China, by Liu Shaw-tong. A straight and human account of life under Mao Tse-tung's new order, by a young Chinese who took a close look, then ran for his life (TIME...