Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After ten days in Red China, a "goodwill delegation" of eight Japanese Socialists last week flew home to Tokyo with visions of such sugarplums as increased trade and a nonaggression pact between the two countries. "Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai met us, warmly shook our hands and patted our backs," glowed one delegate. "The results obtained are just too numerous to mention." Not so starry-eyed was Tokyo's daily Yomiuri Shimbun, which called Mao's proffered sweetmeats "cakes drawn on a piece of paper. Nobody can taste them...
...population from the feudal bondage of fathers and husbands to serve the new state in work cadres. The women, among other privileges, got the equality of the hoe and the lathe. By 1953 more than 1,000,000 women held jobs in Red China's industry. Mao Tse-tung's air force today has a squadron of jet fighters manned entirely by women. But the Red marriage law could not change the way of a man with a maid overnight. Even among Communists, particularly in the back-country cadres, the notion of equality between men and women...
...phenomenon, but an expedient, in Soviet politics. In 1921 Lenin's New Economic Policy (NEP) tolerated private enterprise, but when Stalin thought the economy was sufficiently on its feet again, he ruthlessly liquidated every vestige of free enterprise. In Red China today, Party Leader Mao Tse-tung tolerates a controlled capitalism for the same purpose...
...recent months, however, Mao's China, desperately in need of brain power, has spread the word that the old, traditionally trained scholars it used to hector are not so bad after all. "Let diverse schools of thought contend," was the way the official policymakers put it. Last week, in line with the effort to make the classics acceptable, humble Chinese were getting a look at 18 of Mao's own classic poems, all set out in a new poetry magazine. "There is nothing outstanding about them," said Mao modestly, "but since you consider the poems publishable...
...Sample Mao classic, written during the famed Red "long march" to Yenan...