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...People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution ... When people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place.' DONALD TSANG, Hong Kong's Chief Executive, comparing the territory's campaign for universal suffrage to the social upheaval caused by Mao Zedong's anti-rightist purges in the 1960s, during a radio interview. Tsang apologized for his comments after an outcry from pro-democracy lawmakers...
...Obama (“BaRock My World”), and awareness about AIDS (the newly-popular “HIV-Positive” tees). But sometimes, casual campaigning can underplay the seriousness of an issue. “I get mad when I see people wearing shirts of Mao Zedong,” says Justine S. Chow ’10, another student who attended the T-shirt making event. “They don’t know what he did. He tore my family apart.” Nonetheless, some students feel that the message...
...will be re-elected to a second five-year term as party General Secretary. The former hydraulic engineer's sense of China's future is rooted in his own experiences. Though he came from a moderately prosperous family of tea merchants, Hu was thrust into the turmoil of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution soon after he graduated from Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University in 1964. Along with millions of others, he was sent to the countryside to "learn from the masses." After a year spent carrying bricks at a construction site in Guizhou province, Hu began a gradual rise through...
...divisions of Chinese infantry where none should have been, advancing under heavy shelling as if in a light rain. It was perhaps the first modern "mission accomplished" moment. The U.S. thought it had the Korean War sewn up, but it spent the next three years slugging it out with Mao's "volunteers." In The Coldest Winter (Hyperion; 736 pages), David Halberstam, who died in April, brings angry wisdom to a conflict that, after the moral clarity of WW II, seemed remote and incomprehensible. It was the miserable prototype for wars to come...
...auspicious time of 8:08 p.m. on Aug. 8, precisely one year before the Olympic Games are to open in Beijing, China held a celebration of the coming festivities in Tiananmen Square. The Gate of Heavenly Peace, where Mao Zedong's portrait still hangs, was bathed in red and gold light for the event, which featured intricately choreographed dance routines, multiple pop stars and, of course, fireworks...