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...clang of cymbals and drums, China plunged into a pandemonium of celebrations. From humid, semitropical Yunnan to frigid Heilungkiang, millions of Chinese paraded through cities and towns, waving the little red books of Mao Tse-tung's quotations and chanting "Long life to Chairman Mao!" Many carried sunflowers as symbols of loyalty to a man whom his followers revere as "the red sun in our hearts." The occasion was, according to its official title, "The Ninth National Congress of the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China...
Control Upheaval. Thus, for the first time since 1958, Mao last week opened a national political convention. It was a highly significant moment for him. After having subjected China and the party to more than two years of chaos in the name of his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao was trying not only to control the upheaval that has threatened to plunge the country into civil war but also to rebuild the party...
...very fact that the congress was convened at all showed that Mao had made at least some progress toward domestic peace. According to the 1956 party's constitution, the congress should have been held in 1961, but it was delayed. Mao wanted to convene it last year but nationwide chaos stirred up by his Cultural Revolution forced one postponement after another. The revolution, he had originally hoped, would rekindle the zealous spirit that spurred Chinese Communists to emerge from the caves of Yenan and conquer all of China after World War II. It would also, Mao thought, reinvigorate...
John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, will speak on Chairman Mao and his meaning for the United States at 8 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland Junior Common Room...
...Elect of History." Since they have a sense of mission rather than any specific purpose, they attach themselves to a "carrier" movement: civil rights, labor, etc. "Back to the people" causes are most popular with middle-class students, particularly if they permit an extra nose tweak for Father. (Mao Tse-tung has recalled the pleasure it gave him to side with the peasants that his father exploited...