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...wooden guns), and even China's productive labor is sometimes carried out in a manner resembling close-order drill. Whatever the occasion, there is one standardized piece of equipment for China's nearly 800 million people-a copy of the little red book containing Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
Long Night. The change represented a new awakening for China. In economic terms, the world's most populous nation has lain asleep for the past dozen years. The long night began in 1958, when Mao launched his ill-fated Great Leap Forward. His nation had barely recovered from that disaster when the nightmare of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution began. Now, Sinologists believe, China may be about to register its first real economic progress since before the Great Leap...
Rising Star. Nor has the new mood forced any change in the top leadership. At 76, Mao remains China's unquestioned ruler. Last month he was given the title "Supreme Commander of the Whole Nation and the Whole Army," and a new constitution will soon name him head of state, the title held by Liu Shao-chi until he was purged in 1966 as a Soviet-style revisionist. But beneath Mao and his heir apparent, Defense Minister Lin Piao, 63, China's leadership is rapidly changing. At almost every level of administration, the radicals who were riding high...
...symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand for the renewal of Communist life. It is, in other words, a call for the resurrection of revolutionary immortality." Mao Tse-Tung, Lifton suggests, is the embodiment of revolutionary immortality, the aged man who renews his life in the Cultural Revolution. Thought, as an extension of his personality, finds new life in thousands of minds. The entire Chinese Communist movement, from the Long March to the Cultural Revolution, becomes...
...show that these survivors participate in the drug culture, the revolutionary movement or any of the other "modes of immortality" to which he refers. He certainly never manages to connect the cultural revolution with the Hiroshima atrocity, or to prove that the bombing had any personal psychological effect on Mao or any of the other leaders of China...