Word: mao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vast portraits of Marx and Engels, along with Stalin and Mao, in Tien an Men square somehow confirmed the conviction that it was absurd to let these people, or their like, seize the political initiative from us. When Americans take to sandals and posting up posters to Hindu divines, it is understood that adolescence is in a difficult phase. But what in the name of God were these half-acre portraits of hirsute German bourgeois doing in the main square of a Mongol capital. Were these people grown-ups here?...Why not, then, explain to their parents that Marx...
...under the ubiquitous slogan STRIVE FOR THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS! The four: industry, agriculture, science and technology, and national defense. The goals that the Peking leadership has set for China are truly herculean-perhaps too much so for a country that is still recovering from the shocks and turmoils of Mao's last years. Thus many Sinologists wonder whether the ambitions of Teng and his pragmatic followers may not eventually prove to be as chimerical as those of Mao's 1958 Great Leap Forward, when peasants were urged to smelt iron and steel in backyard furnaces. Among the problems...
Today there are only about 630,000 university students in a population of nearly 1 billion. The post-Mao leaders reopened schools and reinstated college entrance exams, but the intellectual caliber of students remains very low. Of the 5.7 million university applicants judged qualified to take the entrance tests last year, only 278,000 were admitted. At the same time, many teachers who were persecuted by the ferocious Red Guards in 1966 are understandably hesitant to cooperate in what may prove to be ephemeral new policies...
...range of no more than 4,000 miles. Its navy, though the world's third largest, is equally antiquated: its two nuclear-powered submarines carry no missiles. In a major conflict, little advantage could be gained from hundreds of bomb shelters carved out all over China on Mao's command to "dig tunnels deep, store grain everywhere, and never seek hegemony." China's ability to fight off even a limited Soviet thrust is questionable. Indeed, if China buys modern weapons from Europe, or possibly the U.S., the 190 divisions of the People's Liberation Army...
...modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel is justified...