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...China last week. In every one of the country's 29 provinces and administrative districts, mammoth rallies of 100,000 or more people were staged; in Peking (pop. 8 million) more than 4 million Chinese took part in such rallies. The press was filled with rhetoric praising Chairman Mao Tse-tung and the Communist Party Politburo...
...alone with the masses, waiting," confided Mao Tse-tung to Andre Malraux...
...handful of people in authority taking the capitalist road"-stigmatizing those who would create a bureaucratic class of privilege as in the U.S.S.R. Later, the revolt degenerated into a witch hunt for the "Black Hands": i.e., anyone who opposed the movement. After three years of near anarchy, Mao himself was ready to call off the chase. "The Black Hand is nobody else but me," he told a group of Red Guards. That tragic admission provides the climax of The Wind Will Not Subside, an absorbing, provocative narrative of China's Cultural Revolution...
Little Generals. Intended as a rite of purification, the Cultural Revolution soon becomes a naked power struggle. The issues that concern Mao are lost in sectarian hostilities. Student extremists -the so-called "little generals"-organize combat teams that go at each other in factories and institutes. They skirmish with catapults, battering rams and sometimes submachine guns, until a despairing Mao asks, "Who could have foreseen this kind of fighting?" and prepares to let the army restore order. Even then, as the authors indicate, irony is not played out. Parvenu ultraleftists are branded "counterrevolutionary," and the rightists are restored to power...
Peking. But the book keeps an appreciative eye out for ambiguity, as when the Great Helmsman personally calls a halt to the Red Guards' activity. In the students' fiery intransigence Mao must have seen embers of his own youth...