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...Piao, war hero, defense minister and the man whom Mao Tse-tung personally anointed as China's future leader only 2½ years ago, is politically finished and very possibly dead as well...
...RUSSIAN-CHINESE DIFFERENCES: "Mao understands that the U.S. should believe in a consumer society because America is a capitalist country, but that Russia, the great socialist sister, should have the same values is incomprehensible to him and a betrayal of their common cause. If Kosygin succeeds in giving every Russian a small motorcycle, then that's the end of Mao's spartan Chinese Communism...
...Academy of Sciences, was surprised to learn from Terrill that one of his books, Ancient Chinese Society, was still on sale, even though Kuo was reported to have ordered it burned during the Cultural Revolution. He nonetheless autographed Terrill's copy and let out the news that Chairman Mao, at 77, is learning English, and enjoys tossing around newly learned phrases like "law-and-order...
Despite its "new opening" toward the U.S., the Peking government has allowed only a handful of correspondents from American newspapers and magazines into Red China. By far the finest account so far of life in the land of Mao appears in the November issue of the Atlantic Monthly; the author is Australian Ross Terrill, 33, a contributing editor of the magazine. Harvard's John K. Fairbank, the dean of American Sinologists, calls Terrill's 15,000-word article "the best piece of reporting from China since the late '40s." Other China watchers heartily concur...
Terrill found China in the grip of a "mental unity" created by "the myth of Mao thought." Yet in daily life he noted an "appealing imprecision. People wander around; daydream. They don't mince like Japanese, but amble as men in secure possession of the earth under their feet." He also was struck by the candor of those he interviewed. At Canton's Sun Yat-sen University, he talked with Professor Fu Chih-lung, a Minnesota Ph.D. in biology, who had given up theoretical research to develop a new breed of insects that would kill agricultural pests...