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...radical university students and waved placards that allegorically assailed Chiang Ch'ing. They also carried slogans reading, GONE FOR GOOD is CH'IN SHIH HUANG'S FEUDAL SOCIETY, an allusion to the first Chinese Emperor (3rd century B.C.), a great but ruthless dynasty builder with whom Mao has been commonly identified...
Throughout the country, as Mao became ever more feeble and close to death, the authority of his government seemed to weaken. As early as the end of 1974, an extraordinary 77-page wall poster put up in Canton set forth a comprehensive indictment of the way China was being run at that time. Written by a group of young intellectuals who used the pseudonym Li I-che, the wall poster condemned China as a place where "no one is allowed to think, no one is allowed to do research, and no one is allowed to ask a single...
...moderates have not hesitated to buy some goods from foreign countries-a policy the radicals derided as the "worship of things foreign." "In our Socialist state," said one article, "the development of production does not rely on profit and material incentives but on the proletarian revolutionary line of Chairman Mao, on proletarian politics, on class struggle." In place of bonuses and wage increases, the radicals offered voluntary days of unpaid work by revolutionary workers...
...choose a new Politburo and Standing Committee, both of which have been depleted through the deaths of old leaders and the new purges. Some of the radicals' rhetoric is likely to be retained indefinitely, partly to avoid the appearance of an abrupt departure from policies once sanctioned by Mao, but also to satisfy the Central Committee members who retain some sympathy for the radicals' views. Still, the more Utopian of the leftist policies will probably be quietly dropped in favor of greater pragmatism. This will presumably mean financial incentives in industry, mechanization in agriculture, an emphasis on technical...
...sifted out of Peking last week named the former Vice Premier as one of the chief engineers of the anti-radical coup. Teng would probably have to go through new rituals of selfcriticism, but if he is in fact rehabilitated, it would be a sure sign that the post-Mao leadership now in place intends to move steadily in the direction of pragmatism and an easing of Mao-style revolutionary fervor...