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CHINA'S GREAT PROLETARIAN Cultural Revolution may never be fully explained to the outsider. An aura of mystery always remains, the legacy of the Western press's hazy early reports of the armies of the Red Guard marching back and forth across the nation, and Chairman Mao's heroic swim down the Yangtze--events without explanation, a massive eruption without obvious cause. In The Wind Will Not Subside, David and Nancy Dall Milton have made an effort to chronicle the course of the movement, from the first breath of internal debate through to the final turn to a new kind...
...conflicting theories of development prevalent in China in the early '60s. One group--supported by the Communist Party's leaders--held that the road to national economic independence lay in an emphasis on heavy industrial development, along the model of the Soviet Union. The other, led by Chairman Mao, considered ideology and participatory decisionmaking more important than economics, and found the proposed industrial path too dependent on the establishment of an elite group of technicians to be acceptable for a country whose goal was popular democracy in government. By the mid-'60s, Mao's followers had won out at least...
After these, and beyond hope of cataloguing, everyone has his own favorite, relatively inexpensive bistro (one might be Chez Napoleon, 365 W. 50th St.). Chinatown almost requires a special course of study, in which the thoughts of Chairman Mao will not help, but the best midtown Chinese restaurant is Pearl's (38 W. 48th St.), where the acoustics are so bad you cannot hear yourself talk (but who wants...
...Army during the '30s and '40s; in Peking. Chu Teh studied at the Yunnan Military Academy and in 1922 went to Berlin to study Marxism; there he met Chou En-lai and joined the Chinese Communist Party. Back in China, he joined forces in 1928 with Mao Tse-tung, who was organizing the Red Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against the Nationalist armies in 1946-49. A political moderate, during...
...American involvement. Besides, ideological conflict is susceptible to detente, and there is something in the nature of religious war that is deeply intolerant of accommodation. The combination of Communism and nationalism is, of course, a powerful force for ideological upheaval, providing saints and messiahs-Ho Chi Minh, Mao, Castro-and an accompanying mythology and faith. There, too, the overriding faith validates any behavior on behalf of the visionary goal-which in the Marxist case must be achieved in this world, not the next. Some Communist leaders now, how ever, especially those in Western Europe, have begun insisting that...