Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sooner was the news out than some 3,000 cheering Chinese poured into Peking streets, carrying huge portraits of Chairman Mao, waving red flags, singing revolutionary songs, lighting firecrackers and banging cymbals and drums. As Peng himself ironically declared last year: "Whoever spreads pessimistic and defeatist views will be punished by history...
...satire, but in recent weeks Russian editors have been turning to that form of wit as a means of ridiculing their truculent fellow Communists, the Red Chinese. Spread across a recent issue of Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta was one of the more hilarious examples of the current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author, Shanghai Fruit Store Manager Chou Hsin-li, explained...
First, Chou studied Mao's treatise on dialectical materialism, "On Contradiction." "I became convinced," writes Chou, "that it is necessary to learn the contradictions existing in the watermelon trade, to expose the contradictions, and to reconcile them." Applied to watermelons, Mao's teachings revealed to Chou the contradictions between the large supply of watermelons in hot weather and the shortage of shop clerks to distribute them. Some of Chou's associates suggested that he should solve the contradiction by reducing the number of melons he put on sale. That was wrong, decided Chou, after studying a Mao...
Turning to a third Mao work, "Concentrate a Superior Force to Destroy the Enemy Forces One by One," Chou concluded that "if we worked according to the old method of even distribution of sales forces, we would fail to smash the enemy-the decay of watermelons." Applying Mao, Chou "concentrated overwhelming forces and properly waged the struggle for the watermelon trade." Result: no spoiled melons and a 19,000-yen profit for the season...
Russia's Communist youth paper, Komsomolskaya Pravda, joined in the fun last week, publishing, also without comment, a set of questions and answers about sports from a Red Chinese newspaper. All the answers directed the questioners to various sections of Mao's works, hardly any of which actually deal with sports...