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Thousands of young, college-educated girls are uprooted from China's great cities every year and sent off to the boondocks for the stint at manual labor that is demanded of intellectuals in Chairman Mao Tse-tung's domain. In Peking alone, 40,000 coeds from the class of '67 have been told to start new lives in frontier villages and communes far from the capital. A select few have been carefully exempted from that harsh regimen, however, and can be expected to remain so. Not surprisingly, they are daughters of the leadership-girls whom the Chinese...
Foremost in the Maoist junior league are the two daughters of Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades...
...Chieh-sheng, daughter of famed Marshal Ho Lung by one of his early wives (he has been married nine times), achieved revolutionary fame by denouncing her father as a "despicable swine." She is now an important member of the cultural cadre, boasts that she is closer to Mao than to her own parents...
Early this year, after a Red Guard paper accused her of "outrageously tucking Chairman Mao's portrait under her bed," she was arrested...
...organization. In a dozen black ghettos, Panthers prowl in uniform: black jackets, black berets, tight black trousers. They proclaim their right to bear arms, and they have an affinity for violence. Committed to revolution, devoted to some hard-line Chinese Communist doubletalk, they are gathering notoriety as an American Mao-Mao...