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Ralph and Dick knew their stuff. Avid readers of Marx and Mao, Lenin and Trotsky, they impressed Clayton Van Lydegraf with their grasp of revolutionary ideology. Lydegraf, 62, a Communist Party member since the 1930s, had founded the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee in San Francisco. Its aim: to serve as a recruiter and support organization for the Weather Underground, the supersecret group that was formed from,the most extreme elements of the '60s antiwar movement and is bent on fomenting violent revolution in the U.S. Though the Weather Underground is estimated to have only a few dozen hard-core...
...exactly a reprise of Mao Tse-tung's celebrated 1956 call to "let a hundred flowers bloom," but at least a few buds were in sight. After a decade of cultural starvation, book lovers in China have suddenly been able to buy four novels and two poems that had long been banned; five other proscribed works have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum...
Another Chinese classic scheduled for reissue is Midnight, a 1933 novel about an evil and greedy capitalist, by Shen Yen-ping; fittingly, perhaps, he adopted the pen name Mao Tun, meaning contradiction. After the Communist takeover in 1949, Mao Tun abandoned literature for politics and eventually became Minister of Culture. In 1965 he was fired-apparently at the behest of Mme. Mao-and his early fiction was banned. Last month the 81-year-old author reappeared in print after more than a decade of silence...
Sadly, intellectuals who have tried their best to follow the unpredictable twists and turns of Chinese politics have often fared badly. A poignant example: China's greatest living philosopher, Feng Yulan, 83, who has fallen into disgrace for the third time in his career. In 1957, after Mao ended his "hundred flowers" campaign, Feng was branded a rightist. Bowing to the winds of change, the Columbia-educated author of the renowned two-volume A History of Chinese Philosophy repudiated his life's work. During the Cultural Revolution, Feng was denounced as a counterrevolutionary; once again he confessed abjectly...
Reports have now reached Hong Kong that Chuang attempted to take his own life in Peking by hanging himself with his belt. The reason: he had come under attack for his association with the Gang of Four, the political radicals headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, who are still being reviled in the Chinese press because they reduced the national economy to "semianarchy" and "rode roughshod over the people, drank their blood and ate their flesh." Soon after the Gang of Four was arrested last year, Chuang, now 36, was kicked...