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...Hall of the People. The leaders' search for a haven against Lin Piao's conspiracy to overthrow Chairman Mao had not been revealed to outsiders before this moment, she added...
...previously unpublished photographs of Chiang Ch'ing. The excerpts begin with Witke's description of her first formal session as Chiang Ch'ing's anointed biographer. She had just arrived in Canton, where she stayed in a government guesthouse and awaited her encounter with Madame Mao...
...just as Chairman Mao said to [French Foreign Minister Maurice] Schumann [on a visit to China in 1972], Mao applied a drop of alcohol and Lin Piao was finished." [Mao probably meant, figuratively, that he rubbed Lin Piao...
Apparently under Chiang Ch'ing's influence, Mao had proclaimed that all plays portraying "ghosts" or "emperors and princes, generals and ministers, gifted scholars and beauties" should be banned. Instead, there should be idealization of the proletariat. Thus Chiang Ch'ing had started during the Cultural Revolution to build a new "proletarian " art from scratch. One of her successes was the showy Red Detachment of Women-performed for President Nixon in Peking in 1972. She recounts the difficulties she had in staging this theatrical extravaganza...
...united front with the fledgling Communist Party (founded in 1921), but during his "reunification campaign, "he had broken with it, determined to destroy it. Weaker by far than the Nationalist Party, the Communist Party went underground in the cities while a small faction, led by the then little-known Mao Tse-tung, began a long effort to establish revolutionary bases in remote areas of the Chinese countryside. Meanwhile Chiang Ch'ing, a floundering actress, apprentice playwright and intellectually restless, went to the port city of Tsingtao and made contact with Communist Party members...