Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the rest of China, the trouble in Wuhan stemmed from the resentment of the Wuhanese at the boisterous inva sions of Red Guards from Peking, who sweep in and try to take over everything from the city government to factory management in the name of Mao. By wall-poster accounting, no fewer than 350 people have been killed and 1,500 seriously wounded in clashes in Wuhan since last April. A formidable foe heads the resistance against the Maoist intruders: General Chen Tsaitao, commander of the Wuhan Military Region and a distinguished career soldier of the People...
Liberate Wuhan! Two weeks ago, Mao took direct action to try to bring Wuhan into line. He dispatched Hsieh Fu-chih, Deputy Premier and China's top cop, along with Wang Li, the party's propaganda chief, to see General Chen. The confrontation at Chen's military headquarters was hardly under way when the Million Heroes, arriving in hundreds of trucks and backed by Chen's soldiers, surrounded the building. In the ensuing confusion, Wang Li and Hsieh Fu-chih were seized by the mob and carried away. Back in Peking, wall posters blossomed overnight with...
Peking's response to the "abduction" of its envoys was immediate. Peking garrison troops loyal to Mao made a rare march through the streets of the capital, brandishing placards demanding...
...most experienced mediator, quietly went to work behind the scenes to negotiate with General Chen for the release of the two prisoners. He succeeded, and last week the freed emissaries returned to Peking and a hero's welcome at the airport by Maoist officials including Chou and Mrs. Mao and tens of thou sands of cheering Pekingese...
...days, the handful of Party people in authority taking the capitalist road instigated peasants to join in armed struggles in cities, forcing factories, mines, party and government organs and schools to cease functioning." It was, if not civil war, civil disorder on a vast scale-and the greatest crisis Mao has yet confronted in his visionary attempt to reshape China in his own austere image...