Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with their cash bribes, many first went on a spending spree for what passes for luxury goods in China. As a result, sales of watches, radios and cotton goods were belatedly banned, and the Maoists issued orders freezing wages and bank withdrawals. In Shanghai, where Mao backers and anti-Mao farmers fresh from the country confronted one another, the anti-Mao city authorities were accused of trying to withdraw more than $400,000 in funds at a stroke. Trying to get the country's industry running again without its regular workers or managers, Maoist students took over...
...Shanghai was hauled through the city's streets atop a trolley car, his head bowed and a placard tied about his neck. Armed battles between pro-and anti-Maoist factions roiled the streets of Canton, and north of the city, in Kiangsi province, an army of anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides of three other Mao enemies: Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, Economic Planner...
...capital of Peking, sacking and seizing ministries, arresting people at will and generally adding to the anarchy. One Red Guard detachment even arrested another in Peking, and one of the arrested guards turned out to be none other than Chen Siao, son of Chen Yi, Red China's Mao-lining Foreign Minister. Against Mao's teen-age Red Guards, the anti-Mao establishment mobilized tens of thousands of indus trial workers, gave them pay raises and bonuses and sent many of them into Peking or other big cities to protest. Clearly bewildered by the contradictory commands...
...opposition for its stubbornness, Chou, according to wall posters, spent all night settling an aircraft-engine ministry strike. When one workers' group complained that a rival group had smashed its "publicity car," Chou snarled that he would like to see all publicity cars smashed "so maybe Chairman Mao could get a little peace and quiet...
...remember Mao Tse-tung saying to me that Americans thought the Communists would lose." Old China Hand Theodore H. White is no mean hand at that kind of name-dropping. He also recalls being warned by Chiang Kaishek, in 1941, that "the Japanese are a disease of the skin, but the Communists are a disease of the heart." Such recollections are heart and parcel of China: The Roots of Madness, a 90-minute television documentary to be syndicated on 101 channels in 41 states between Jan. 30 and Feb. 5. For those whose knowledge of the past century of Chinese...