Word: mao
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ming or "Day of Spring Wind" Festival. The Nanking Government decided to invite various Chinese bigwigs on a nationalistic junket to the tomb at Chungpu of the legendary "First Chinese Emperor, Huang Ti." It was not expected that the semi-independent Chinese Communist regime headed by rough & ready General Mao Tse-tung would wish to send a Red to kowtow before the dust of the late Emperor, dead these 4,532 years. But some Nanking bureaucrat dispatched an invitation, just in case...
...General Mao did nothing so risky as to come on the junket in person, but jouncing along in a motor truck over spring-breaking roads came Red Finance Commissar Lin Po-chu. It was as if Earl Browder should send one of his Communist henchmen on Washington's Birthday to honor the capitalist Father of His Country. Bland and self-possessed, Red Lin produced a scroll which he said was from the brush of Red Mao-as likely a story as though it should be claimed that Comrade Browder had written a speech in Chaucerian English or Attic Greek...
...lofty style Red Lin rolled off the speech-and no Chinese proletarian thought of holding against Red leaders the stuffy scholarship displayed. On the contrary this show of Scholarship was judged so likely to raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week...
Some readers may recognize Lin Yü-t'ang (My Country and My People}, but Lu Hsün, "China's Chekhov," and Mao Tun, "perhaps the outstanding novelist of China today," will be new acquaintances...
...finish this picture with bland approbation of the charming impossibility of it all, and then you are jarred back to earth to see one of Major Bowes' amateurs imitate Zasu Pitts and Mao West...