Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung's service. Ryan and Summerlin offer evidence that some would have stayed in America if given the chance...
...bomb is viewed as a deterrent to be employed against any foreign power that tries to snuff out the revolution. Robert Jay Lifton, an Asian specialist and psychiatry research professor at Yale, believes that the death of the revolution-whether by nuclear means or otherwise-is Chairman Mao's greatest fear...
With the decay of a revolution, Lifton writes, "the dying revolutionary can envision nothing but the total extinction of his own self." Because Mao and a few around him suffer from this "sur vivor paranoia," China "must be made to convulse." Thus the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was contrived by Mao and his aging comrades in a quest for the rebirth of zealous Communism in China. To stoke the fires of fanaticism, the leaders called forth specific images of hate: "American imperialism," "bourgeois remnants," and "modern revisionism," and turned the Red Guard loose in the streets...
...Days. Mao's dilemma is similarly reflected by Novelist-Journalist Alberto Moravia, whose Italian passport and sympathy for the revolution allowed him 22 days in China during 1967. "Mao's great enemy is not the United States," he writes in The Red Book and the Great Wall, "but fundamental Chinese Confucian conservatism. The danger is that, once Mao is dead, his thought will be embalmed and his figure deified...
...West. In a sentence reminiscent of Man as an End, his collection of essays published between 1941 and 1963, he writes: "Poverty and chastity are the two normal conditions of man, or at least they ought to be in the world today." In China's destitution and Mao's efforts to eradicate the past, Moravia finds the possibility of rejuvenation. For, once the past has been destroyed, says he, echoing Mao, it "will be replaced by a future that is equally rich in wisdom and refinement...