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...said, ''I wonder if the material on which the Central Committee based its judgment was reliable. You know how easily people can be frightened into making false confessions.'' I couldn't resist this dig. I was sure they at least suspected that the case against Liu was manufactured. (After Mao's death an official Central Committee document described how activists selected by Jiang Qing and Lin Biao tortured Liu's associates to make them provide false evidence.) In the spring of 1969, after nearly three years in prison, I was handcuffed and taken back to that same building where...
...would not be here if we did not have authority. All the former members of Shell have to attend this meeting. It's very important. Don't you know the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has started?'' The servants looked anxious as I left. We all knew that since Mao took over, innumerable people had left their homes during the political campaigns and never come back. At the technical school, the target of the meeting was Tao Feng, the former chief accountant of our office. After several hours of speeches denouncing Shell and the ''running dogs of imperialism,'' Tao Feng...
...militia to disperse the mourners. ''Thousands were killed,'' writes Cheng, ''and tens of thousands wounded. Those found with poems were condemned as counterrevolutionaries and shot without trial. It took the cleaners of Peking two days to hose away the blood and remove everything including the corpses.'' In September 1976, Mao Tse-tung died and the ferocious Jiang Qing was arrested for conspiracy, along with the rest of the infamous ''Gang of Four,'' whose members had played such a pivotal role in prolonging the Cultural Revolution. Then began the glacial process of ''rehabilitation.'' Cheng petitioned the police to investigate the death...
...Cultural Revolution was in fact a struggle for power between the Maoists and the more moderate faction headed by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping. It later became known that the chief party secretary at the conservatory, who belonged to Liu Shaoqi's faction, was murdered when Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, decided to replace him with one of her favorite young men. While we were sitting out in the garden afterward, our conversation was < suddenly drowned out by a burst of noise from drums and gongs in the street. ''There's a parade of students passing the house...
...actor. ''What are the Red Guards?'' I asked. ''It's something new for the Cultural Revolution, encouraged by Jiang Qing,'' he said. ''Someone told me she actually organized them herself and then pretended it was the spontaneous idea of the students. And since she is the wife of Chairman Mao, the idea is catching on.'' Group after group of young students continued to march past our house. Meiping, who had gone outside to watch, told us that the students were shouting, ''Protect Chairman Mao.'' ''Who is supposed to be threatening him?'' I asked. In his lofty position as a demigod...