Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decade had passed since a crowd of shabbily dressed Communists gathered in Peking's crumbling Imperial Palace to hear Mao proclaim the conquest of China and sound a warning: "Let reactionaries at home and abroad tremble!" Last week it was not the reactionaries but Nikita Khrushchev who seemed nervous. From the moment of his arrival in Peking. Khrushchev had been publicly pressuring his hosts to "do everything possible to preclude war as a means of settling outstanding questions"; five times in as many minutes he had sounded the call for "peaceful coexistence"; in pointed reference to his U.S. trip...
...China's answer seemed plain. At the height of last week's anniversary parade, 100 dark green tanks and 144 motorized artillery pieces clanked onto the broad square before Mao and Khrushchev. The pavement rang to the cadenced tread of 100,000 soldiers, sailors and airmen, and nine massive columns of militiamen. From overhead came the whine and rumble of 155 Chinese-made jet bombers and fighters. The procession ended, heavy with menace, as 700,000 workers marched by, 100 abreast, shouting, "Liberate Taiwan...
Required Reading. So complete is Liu's talent for fading into the woodwork that no one is even sure how old he is; he was born, probably about 1898, in Yin-shan in rice-growing Hunan province, not far from Mao Tse-tung's own village. Liu and Mao, as sons of prosperous peasant families, attended middle school in Changsha, the largest city in the province, and a hotbed of radical nationalism. Though Mao was some four years older than Liu, they worked together on a left-wing student magazine, and by his early...
During Liu's absence in Russia, where he was both bored and homesick, Mao and eleven other comrades founded the Chinese Communist Party. On his return from Russia Liu promptly joined, and for the next 20 years he worked as a Red labor organizer-a job that occasionally landed him in prison. In 1934, when Mao led the Red army in its famed, 6,000-mile Long March from southern Kiangsi to the caves of Yenan in northern China, Organizer Liu went underground, remained behind as a Communist agent in Kuomintang territory...
...have missed both the founding of the Communist Party and the Long March might have put Liu far down the list of party hopefuls. Yet when he finally reached Mao's Yenan headquarters in 1937, he quickly made up for lost time, moved nimbly through the party infighting. As a political commissar, he was assigned to investigate the army commanded by grizzled Peng Teh-huai, the Reds' No. 2 military man and later commander of Chinese "volunteers" in Korea...