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Twenty-odd years ago, legend has it, The Crimson refused to elect one student its president because he failed to support Chairman Mao. Now, a conservative was gaining control of The Crimson's proud liberal editorial policy. It sent shivers down quite a few spines, and the owners of said spines were more than willing to tell...
...worthwhile to remember that such art -- which, mutatis mutandis, has also been the formal state style of Hitler, Mao Zedong and not a few minor figures including Saddam Hussein -- has meant more to more people in the past 60 years than all the sanctified Modernist styles, from Fauvism to Pop, rolled together. Like Modernism's, its roots lay in the 19th century. If Modernism grew from Manet, Monet and Cezanne, Socialist Realism emerged from their conservative opposition -- the academic and narrative work that was the institutional art of Europe a century ago. In Russia the hugely popular landscapes and genre...
...convincingly has he left his stamp on the country that many Chinese will find it difficult to envision a China without Deng. After the ruinous years of the Cultural Revolution and the death of Mao Zedong, Deng consolidated his power. In 1978 he dropped Marxist orthodoxy to begin economic reforms he hoped would make China "a modern, powerful socialist country." He and his disciples insist they are creating a "socialist market economy," an oxymoron they interpret officially as "socialism with Chinese characteristics." While they cling to such slogans to bolster their positions, in practice they are producing capitalism with Chinese...
...effects of Deng's economic revolution are astounding. In Mao's time, leveling was the rule, and everyone aimed at a drab, fanatical egalitarianism. The nation dressed in rumpled blue tunics that made it difficult to tell men from women, and waxed so proletarian that even army officers removed their badges of rank. Today the society is brazenly materialistic, roaring through cycles of boom and bust that have made millions rich. The free-for-all has also left hundreds of millions in the dust but still eager to get theirs. "People are thinking only about money," says a Chinese professor...
...trendy coat for one Alex Hamilton? Besides, by purchasing that fashionable item in the PRC, you're transferring a little bit of an evil big business' 2500 percent profit to an independent Chinese small-business owner, thus funding and nurturing the growth of the nascent middle class in post-Mao China, whose soon-to-be wealthy members, in turn, will spearhead the transformation of the corrupt, market-Leninist, cruel-repressive, authoritarian Chinese state into a free, liberal, shiny-happy, kinder-gentler, just, western-style democratic nation...