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...LIKE MAO ZEDONG BEFORE HIM, Deng Xiaoping has been forced to abandon a hand-picked successor and loyal supporter for committing grave political errors. Deng should have the personal prestige, like Mao again, to ride out this considerable reverse. But the history of Mao's cultural revolution should warn Deng that the demotion of Party General Secretary Hu Yaobang may have started the rot not stopped...
...Mao, too, led a radical coalition committed to deep reform of the system. He, too, was forced to sacrifice top aides in the interests of national stability. He found the process difficult to halt. The coalition eroded, the reforms foundered, if not immediately, then after the death of their originator...
...humiliating affront to the country's sovereignty. Reports that Britain, France and Italy had agreed at Versailles to support Japanese claims to Shandong sparked a demonstration of some 5,000 students in Peking on May 4, 1919, and protests at more than a dozen universities across the country. Mao Tse-tung later labeled the "May 4 movement," as it came to be called, "an anti-imperialist and antifeudal bourgeois-democratic revolution in China." The protests ushered in a decade of radical opposition to foreign encroachment...
...Mao turned the restless energy of the country's youth inward, recruiting thousands of students to serve as Red Guards, the ideological shock troops of the Chairman's tumultuous Cultural Revolution. Though students played an often brutal role in the ten-year purge of the country's intellectual elite, their participation in the Cultural Revolution, like the epoch itself, seems to have been a historical aberration. More typically, China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square...
Although Wu Hung did not think of himself as counterrevolutionary, his comments about the prevalence of Communist propaganda were considered dangerous by the government "I suggested we paint Chairman Mao quotations on the inside of our eyeglasses," Wu Hung recounts. "I paid too much for this kind of joke...