Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking is not only unrealistic about us. Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until 1912 when Mao was already eighteen years of age. To hear the Peking leaders talk talk you would think they were an off-shot of European Socialism. Actually the problems they face and the methods they use are in large part inherited from Chinese history...
...Americans talk every day about our founding fathers of the eighteenth century. Our founding fathers lived in the period of the Emperor Chlien-lung, who ruled for sixty years at the height of a two thousand-year development of imperial monarchy. Chairman Mao doesn't seem to know it, but he owes something of his style and world view to his predecessors in Peking in ages past. Since we have now given up calling Communism a great international monolith, everywhere and always the same, it is high time for us to examine the Chineseness which is now showing through...
...they did exist, could not be acknowledged to exist. Even when the foreigners were more powerful, the myth of China's superiority had to be solemnly recorded and preserved in ritual. This stress on orthodoxy strikes one today when Peking is continuing its nationwide indoctrination in Chairman Mao's true teachings...
...contend that we today are simply nineteenth-century imperialists come back to life, any more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit...
...world is learning the lesson that collectivization is nothing but chaos," he explained. The average Chinaman, Clark noted has loss to eat under Mao than he did under Chiang Kal-Shek...