Word: mao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Teddy White is interested in excitement. He has been ever since China. But he indulges this interest to excess. He falls too easily for the big names--Chou En Lai, Stillwell, MacArthur, Mao, Eisenhower and Kennedy. To White, these people are all bigger and better than life. He loses his perspective which causes the reader to lose respect for White's credibility...
...respects the sections on Harvard and China are the most fascinating. White was here 35 years ago, when Harvard was a very different place. He was in China witnessing what very few saw, let alone at such close hand--as an intimate of Chou's and an acquaintance of Mao...
...discussion of Mao's leadership in the Chinese revolution, he recognizes in a few paragraphs the importance of the Communist party hierarchy as the mediator between the masses and the leaders, but he does not explain why it worked when so many other attempts at leadership have failed...
Vietnam, will conduct research on the foreign policy of China from the death of Mao Tse-Tung to today, and will attempt an analysis of American energy policy...
...Chinese, in the past at least, had never seen it that way. When Belgrade recognized the Peking Communist government only four days after the proclamation of the Chinese People's Republic in 1949, Mao Tse-tung ignored the gesture. In subsequent years, the Chinese press regularly attacked Titoist "revisionism." In one famous outburst, the Peking People's Daily called Tito "a dwarf kneeling in the mud and trying with all his might to spit at a giant standing on a lofty mountain...