Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...banners that festooned the broad boulevards of Peking. There seemed to be no pattern to the shouted slogans, no rhythm to the dialectical drums. That Red China was undergoing a convulsion of historic proportion could not be doubted. Beneath the tremors, a few simple facts were apparent: - Mao Tse-tung is still his nation's leader and a vigorous one at that. - Mao's army is the chosen vehicle of a sweeping change he has decided to impose on his 750 million people. - Mao's anointed heir and chief instrument, Defense Minister Lin Piao,*59, has emerged...
Beyond those basic facts, the West could see no more than the Chinese fireworks ignited by Mao's fulminating Red Guards, who since last month have been everywhere imposing a new discipline, a new austerity and a new concept that amount to a do-it-yourself revolution...
...circumstance," lamented a Havana editorial, "that the People's Republic of China has given the enemies of socialism cause for laughing and taunting." Russia weighed in with its own protest after Red Guards halted and humiliated the Soviet charge d'affaires by holding a portrait of Mao in front...
...fact, Mao's mobs seemed set on obliterating China's pre-Communist identity. Across the country, monuments to China's own rich history came tumbling down. In Hangchow, a stone column commemorating a visit to the city by the 17th century Manchu Emperor Kang Hsi was pulled down. Though he brought more territory under Chinese rule than anyone since Genghis Khan, Kang Hsi had also allowed Catholic priests into the country and had approved China's first treaty with Russia, thus forfeiting his right to a place of honor in Mao's new China...
...Guard offensive reflected Mao's desperate intent to rekindle a revolutionary spirit in a country that he fears has gone flabby. But was there even more than that to Red China's present contortions? Last week the Red army newspaper devoted columns to the glorification of Red Chinese participation in the Korean War. The paper also warned that the U.S. might try to extract itself from its present predicament in Viet Nam by expanding the war. To some, it sounded suspiciously like a country preparing for war. Or was it rather the horrifying death rattle of a regime...