Word: mao
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gruin's ten-mow (3⅓-acre) "estate." In Shanghai, Bureau Chief William Gray, his wife "Freddie," and their three children, looked forward to being in their new house on Columbia Road. Said Gray: "We'll hang up the sang chi sheng (mistletoe) and the mao erh to tzu (cat's ears or thorn of holly) and startle passing ricksha boys with God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen...
...Yenan, defiant Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung called for unlimited guerrilla warfare from hundreds of Red village bases. In Manchuria, Communist Li Lisan, who had opposed Mao in internal Communist politics 20 years ago (TIME, Sept. 9; Sept. 23), was urging a separate, Soviet-backed state...
...governor of Suiyuan since 1931, Confucian protege of old Shansi "Model Governor" Yen Hsi-shan, and known in Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press my heart and ask: who has killed these...
Last week, in the silence of the night, Mao Tse-tung, who had long ago made his choice for dictatorship and against democracy, was still pondering upon General Fu's stern indictment and cruelly embarrassing generosity...
...Lisan had lost face. His young rivals for party leadership, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai (until then an executioner for the Communist Party in Shanghai), insisted that the Communists in China should henceforth base their shattered movement on the dissatisfied peasants. Li insisted that it must be based on the factory workers. In a fierce, undercover, dialectic struggle, Li Lisan was forced out of the leadership. He went to Russia, where friends got him a job in Moscow's famed Far Eastern University, training ground for Russia's Asiatic agents. He married a Russian wife. Meanwhile...