Word: mao
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...price of bread, "that war is no nearer this year than it was last, and maybe-I say it with the smallest of maybes-it is farther away." In many ways, 1952 might be called the Year of the Generals. The entrenched ones, like Stalin and Franco and Mao and Tito, held their familiar sway. Others came to power; in coups d'etat (Egypt's Naguib and Cuba's Batista), or in honest elections (Greece's Papagos and in the U.S., Eisenhower). The generals held the headlines; so much so that, to the hurried reader...
...biography of Mao Zedong, penned by Harvard scholar Ross Terrill, a senior research associate at the Fairbank Center for Asian Studies, has experienced a sudden surge in Chinese sales this year, the 30th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s death...
...book, “Mao: A Biography,” has sold more than 50,000 copies since January in a reprinted Chinese translation of the original, which was first published...
...author’s interest in Mao began years ago. He said that he first went to China while “an Australian student wandering around the world, banging on doors...
...started working on Mao when I realized that the ideas of the party didn’t mean as much as the power structure and the personality on top,” he said, adding that he thinks Mao acts as a “magnifying glass for China...the whims of the dictator get translated into policy...