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Guests came through the doors to find graffiti-decorated walls and "industrial squalor." One student came as Chairman Mao Zedong with a "Little Red Book" and another with a hammer-and-sickle head ornament, though most of the more than 100 partygoers came as "Russian Euro-trash" youth, Haysom recalls...
Like China, Zhu lost two decades of his life as Mao pushed an already poor country into famine and industrial ruin in the 1960s and '70s. He is from a different shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong...
...over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
Excelling at marksmanship, she was discovered on the school rifle range by no less a talent scout than Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, and went into movies, starring in all her roles. For Little Flower (1980), playing a revolutionary's daughter in pre-Maoist China, she won the Hundred Flowers Award. Instead of staying in China, she moved to New York City as an actress-model. "I was clueless when I arrived," she recalls. "The cultural shock--even the toothpaste tasted different! My desire to go to the States was so vague, yet so strong. It's like going...
That fascination and terror would grow in the decade to come as I, and millions of other Americans, grew up reading Henry Luce's TIME. It was Luce, born in China to Presbyterian missionaries, whose powerful newsweekly most demonized Mao and, by extension, all of what became known as Red China. Later, in the 1970s, I lived in Hong Kong, where, peering across the border, I had the chance to observe Mao's last days, when the notorious Gang of Four reduced China to chaos and near anarchy. I thought then that Luce was probably right. China was a country...