Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spring came to Peking last week, bringing crocuses to the Imperial Pal ace gardens and Mao-jacketed revolutionaries back into the streets. After a long and severe winter, the city echoed again to the feet of 100,000 mass marchers, who tromped around for two days straight chanting insults at the lat est round of "ambitious right-wingers" - the term invariably used against the enemies of Chairman Mao Tse-tung. This time, there was one significant change. The targets of the taunts, far from being right-wingers, were three top lieutenants of Lin Piao, China's leftist Defense Minister...
Their fall from grace indicates that Mao and Lin are under mounting pressure from the regime's comparative moderates, who want to get China back on course after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them is Premier Chou Enlai, a pragmatist who holds no truck with the Cultural Revolution and himself barely escaped the Red Guards' condemnation. Chou recognizes the practical necessity of compromise to hold China's 750 million people together...
...help the chances of compromise, he demanded the removal of the military leaders who had egged on the Red Guards to their excesses. To the astonishment of professional Sinologists, he was joined by Mao's wife Chiang Ching, who surfaced last week after a two-month "rest" to denounce Lin's purged officers as "counterrevolutionary, double-faced, rightist conspirators." The army's new chief of staff will be General Huang Yung-sheng, 62, who, as commander of the Canton military region, had constantly maneuvered to oppose the Red Guards...
Bugged Flowerpots. Mao has not, of course, given up his campaign to overthrow President Liu Shao-chi, the "pro-Moscow revisionist" who remains his most powerful foe. In the Kwangsi region last week, a Maoist tabloid accused one party loyalist of "bugging" flowerpots and sofas in Mao's headquarters "to procure information for China's Khrushchev"-Liu. In Peking, police forced the President's daughter to give public testimony against her father, then arrested her because her criticism was "insufficient...
...Ming dynasty dragon, a deftly carved ivory Guerrilla crouches, defending the motherland against the wicked U.S. air pirates. In Reception, a stalwart group of ivory workers, looking like a miniature convocation of George Segal's plastered everymen, hangs breathlessly on the open-ended words of a Susskindly Chairman Mao. As propaganda, China's purveyors of political wisdom have clearly produced sculpture that is less polemic than totemic, but as art for art's sake-the show has more chuckles than any fun house at the Venice Biennale...