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...were Bono; on American campuses, students have turned their backs in protest. No wonder he enjoys coming to China so much: He's visited more than 50 times since his first secret trip in 1971, when he and Zhou Enlai arranged the following year's historic Nixon-Mao summit...
...local papers put Hengli on the front page - the Modern Express even switching into English with a headline reading "Welcome". Why is Kissinger not simply welcome in China, but treated like a celebrity? Kissinger is naturally credited for contributions toward renewing US-China ties, and his personal relationships with Mao and Zhou mark him with greatness by association. Add to this the Chinese worship of academic achievement. The year I studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, I was shocked by reaction to a lecture by a Nobel Prize-winning economist; the overflow crowd stampeded the podium afterwards, jostling for photos...
...Yang Wanying, whose son Yang Shiliang is also serving a suspended death sentence, the injustice is a crisis of faith. A lifelong Communist Party member who still dresses in a baggy Mao suit and cap, he passionately denies his son is guilty. On the night of the murder, his son was "sitting right there," Yang says, pointing to a window in the family home. "We played mah-jongg from seven o'clock until two in the morning." He pauses for a moment, overcome by emotion, then continues. "Every time I visit him in the jail he asks me the same...
...Ironically, Taiwan's Tourism Bureau has hatched a plan to keep the dictator's memory alive for the one group of people who seem genuinely interested (KMT diehards aside). Chiang-themed tour packages will target mainland Chinese, who are invariably curious about Mao's nemesis. Perhaps they could include the statue at my local park on the itinerary. In this rendition, a grandfatherly Chiang wears a traditional Chinese tunic and leans on a cane. If ever his legacy needed propping...
...Romping through reams of newly available tapes and transcripts, Dallek turns in a fresh and disturbing double portrait that includes such hilarious, pathetic images as the desperately insecure Nixon in a Shanghai hotel at 2 a.m., smashed on "mao-tais," begging his aides to reassure him that his China trip was a success...