Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calm Contrast. The conservative victory was in part due to the threat of that chaos, as exemplified by the demonic doings of Red China's Mao Tse-tung and his rampaging Red Guards. Japan had been moving closer to China during recent years, but most Japanese were appalled and repelled by the events of the past several months. It was in this mood that they voted, and their votes were as much against the pro-Peking direction of the Japanese Socialist Party as they were for the conservatism of Sato. Japan feels that it is staring over the brink...
Back to School. If true, it was as clear a warning as the Kremlin could deliver to Mao Tse-tung to keep his revolutionaries occupied with internal Chinese matters. Western observers believe that it is precisely because Mao is having trouble gaining the upper hand at home that he has so strongly rallied the Chinese against Russia-a trick as old as tyranny. Within China, though the swirl of disorder seemed to abate temporarily, opposing factions busily jockeyed about to win both minds and territory. Mao's increasing dependence on military force illustrated his conviction that "rifles make...
...spring of 1929, while Mao Tse-tung pushed the Red Army through village after dirty village in southern Kiangsi, a few Harvard seniors sat down in the genteel dining room of the Signet Society. John Fairbank, lanky and round-headed, was among them. He listened carefully to Charles Kingsley Webster, a visiting professor from Oxford, as the garrulous old man suggested that someone become interested in sorting out the Chinese documents pouring into the West...
...culture. In the process, they could not avoid being affected by the constant bloodletting and corruption on the Nationalist side, and the bright hope of the young frank communists. People came back from the communist stronghold at Yenan, Fairbank remembers, "incandescent" with praise for the ideas and humanity of Mao and his young friends. They returned to America burdened with both the memory of frustration and a message of hope about the Communists...
...local population as well as for visiting foreigners." Wu still keeps his family, servants and Jaguar in East Shanghai, but quietly banks most of his income (at 3.3% interest) in a conscious effort at inconspicuous consumption. Japanese newsmen who visited Wu recently found him warily proclaiming that life under Mao is "far better than the old way," when "we used to dance madly, gamble and play around with women...