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...compels hikers to start early and pitch their tents before bad weather sets in. From Chilai Ridge the long trek down winds through bamboo forests and the tiny aboriginal settlement of Tianshih. From there, follow a 10-km trail to a logging road that leads to the town of Lushan. It's important to be met at the trail head: the walk down the road to Lushan is daunting. The Chilai Ridge hike takes three days and three nights, and as with the Yushan trip, hikers have to carry all their supplies, including water, tents and food. Similar...
...memories of what went Joe Lushan, who Buchenwald...
...vivid metaphors in urging that counterrevolutionaries not be executed. "A head isn't like a leek," he said. "It doesn't grow again once it's been cut." Mao's most recurrent metaphors refer to the digestive process, which evidently fascinates him. In his Lushan speech, in which he characteristically called on his colleagues to join him in discharging their feelings of guilt for the failures of the Great Leap, he concluded with this scatological flourish: "Comrades, your stomachs will feel much more comfortable if you move your bowels and break wind...
Although the replies of Mao's comrades are not generally included in these papers, there is evidence that this style of polemic has been characteristic of secret meetings. When Mao seemed taken aback by the criticism leveled at him during the stormy Lushan conference, Peng Teh-huai, who had long received more than a fair share of abuse from the Chairman, lashed back at him. "You f-ed my mother for 40 days," Peng told Mao, "so why can't I f- yours for 20?" Recalling the incident later, Mao wryly observed: "Even 20 days wasn...
Under heavy attack at Lushan for the shortcomings of the Great Leap, Mao acknowledged that he had taken sleeping pills three times for tension. He was ready to shoulder the blame for his catastrophic scheme of building backyard steel foundries. Citing Confucius' Analects to the effect that the man who initiates something evil will be severely punished by God, Mao revealed that he had been struck down by the very punishment prescribed by the sage-the loss of his sons. He disclosed that one of his two sons had died in battle (presumably in Korea) and the other...