Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because he fears more disturbances-and because neither China's trains nor its depleted stock of foodstuffs could stand the strain-Mao canceled all Chinese celebrations of the Lunar New Year this week. It was the first such cancellation in 5,000 years of Chinese history, an act roughly equivalent to calling off Christmas...
...surprise move, Mao also ordered all Chinese youth back to school on Feb. 9, when the nation's schools will reopen for the first time since the students were turned loose to play Red Guards last summer. If China's youth do indeed give up guardsmanship, much of the nation's disorder will vanish overnight-but so would Mao's prime weapon until now in the power struggle. Equally curious, China's official news agencies, in a move that was new in the struggle, all last week urged tolerance for Mao's enemies...
...through its paces, she peered through her thick-lensed glasses, smiled frozenly through buck teeth and applauded energetically. Thus last week, on film released by Peking and shown on Hong Kong TV, the world outside Red China got a rare glimpse of Chiang Ching, 52, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Red China's First Lady, and the Cultural Revolution's public fury...
...Dragon Lady? The Red Chinese have lately been seeing and hearing a good deal of Chiang Ching (rhymes with young thing), who only recently emerged from years of obscurity to assume a central role in Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. At first she simply denounced Mao's supposed enemies on the implicit authority carried by her closeness to him. But in the last month or two, the words have been backed by new power. She is now the deputy director of the Cultural Revolution's subcommittee and the sole adviser to the People's Liberation...
...late-blooming life of the party (or what is left of it loyal to Mao), Chiang Ching has been variously explained as the chief inventor of the Cultural Revolution, the guiding force behind Mao, a vindictive Dragon Lady out for personal revenge, and a frustrated starlet seeking the limelight. Though she and Mao are rarely seen together, they dwell in apparent harmony in a villa on a spoon-shaped peninsula in Peking's South Lake...