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Since coming to power in 1949, Mao Tse-tung has time and again extolled the discipline to be learned from manual labor. Over the years, China has periodically conducted "down to the countryside" campaigns, in which millions of city residents go off to work on farms for six months to three years or more. During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, a party member's willingness to "integrate" himself with the masses by doing manual labor became a test of his ideological purity. Professors, government bureaucrats and white-collar workers all spent time, often punitive, in what came...
Department Faculty members, aware of Mao's tenuous position, tried early this year to find a permanent position for her here. Wagner said that they were unable...
Former students of Mao described her yesterday as the "most concerned, the most pleasant and the most skilled teacher" they had ever...
...Confidential Guide for Students (the Confi Guide) devoted a special section to Mao, describing her as the "pleasantest teacher on earth...
...students who attended yesterday's meeting said they will circulate a petition within the Department urging Mao's rehiring...