Word: mao
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...enough of an optimist to decide to remain in Shanghai with his wife and young daughter after the Communists overthrew Chiang Kai-shek in 1949 and gained power in China. He went on to serve as general manager for Shell, the only multinational oil company to stay on after Mao Tse-tung's triumph. When he died of cancer in 1957, Shell brought in a Briton as its new manager and hired Nien Cheng as his special adviser. In 1966, the year in which Mao launched the frenzied upheaval known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the company decided...
...severe during the night when the cell became extremely cold. A few nights later a man's voice announced over the loudspeaker that the No. 1 Detention House had been placed under military control. ''Some of you have not confessed,'' he said. ''The policy of our Great Leader Chairman Mao is 'Lenient treatment for those who confess, severe punishment for those who remain stubborn and reward for those who render meritorious service by denouncing others.' Tonight we will deal with some of the outstanding cases here.'' Then he called out one name after another of prisoners sentenced to death because...
...What sort of ''doctor'' was this? When I looked at him through the small window, I saw a country lad, no more than 20 years of age, in a soldier's uniform. I realized he was not a trained doctor at all but had been given the job because Mao had said, ''We must learn swimming from swimming.'' Several days passed; my fever got so high that I no longer felt the cold in the cell. The guard told me to stay in bed. I slept most of the time, in a state of semiconsciousness, with fantastic dreams of myself...
...willingness to acknowledge when victory was beyond reach. It started with China. In 1949, America's man in Beijing, Chiang Kai-shek, was steadily losing ground to communist rebels. Hawkish politicians and pundits demanded that Truman intervene, and when he didn't and China fell to Mao Zedong, they accused his government of appeasement and worse. Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the wake of China's fall, cited Truman's refusal to rescue Chiang as evidence that his State Department was infested with communist spies. And in 1950, those charges helped sink Democrats at the polls. But historians...
...words)-gives an eloquent if specious defense of the N.P.A.'s core ideology. No communist state has ever collapsed, he argues, because none has ever existed. East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia-none had "true" communist governments when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, while the Soviet Union and post-Mao China "were socialist in name but capitalist in practice." The same jungle that has shielded the N.P.A. from military defeat has also isolated its fighters from a modern world where their cherished ideology is deader than disco...