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...Mao??s Little Red Book: The Square today is all commercial banks, but it wasn’t always this way. In the fifties and sixties, Harvard was known as the Kremlin on the Charles, and rebellious students occupied administration buildings (witness the monstrosity that is riot-proof Canaday). Communists will still accost you in front of the Coop, and the venerable Revolution Bookstore is still in business on Mass. Ave. With Mao??s book, you will be able to separate true radical from poseur—and get a head start on your course...
...other side of the wall, narrow paths led to houses and small shops selling playing cards, cold drinks, Mao??s red book. I stopped at a table with three bamboo waterwheels. The man carving another at a bench farther from the road came over and showed me how to turn the level so the twisting wheel would touch off the tiny hammers. He told me he spent three days carving each one. I didn’t know how to transport one of these to Hong Kong without breaking it. He took me inside his house to offer...
...their glass below the rim of a higher-status counterpart. 3) Chinese people will look up to you (you will be taller than most). 4) Tap your index and middle finger on the table twice to thank someone pouring tea or signal that you have enough. 5) Check out Mao??s body—it’s preserved in Tiananmen Square! 6) You should learn a few phrases ahead of time. Here’s one to get you started: “zhe shi she ma zhong de ro?” (“What...
What these examples say about China’s future is hard to say. But, if nothing else, these displays of eccentric optimism were a constant reminder that the land of Confucius and Mao??s Little Red book is in the throes of a transition from an intense, decades-long repression into a culture of footloose, sometimes stumbling consumerism. Clay A. Dumas ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, lives in Lowell House...
...individuality of the writing process and for a view of literature as a spiritual endeavor rather than a political one.It’s an original—even admirable—thesis, but unfortunately, the book lacks potency and persuasive appeal.In contrast to the stringent maxims of Mao??s “Little Red Book,” much of Gao’s rhetoric is lofty and abstract. Despite the clarity of his prose, his argument, detached from all concrete reasoning, reads like a parade of non sequiturs.In the first of the essays...