Word: maoist
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...Hong Kong, Taipei and New York. Despite the country's ancient traditions of cuisine, most chefs now are out of practice when it comes to fine and careful cooking, and few dining-room staffs know how to serve in anything like first- class style. War, revolution, poverty and a Maoist regime that considered embellishment a manifestation of bourgeois decadence have taken their toll. "We lost the thread of our culinary tradition," says Hu Yulu, the retired chef and now adviser to Shanghai's Jinjiang Hotel. "Our cooking began to decline in the '50s, and we won't even talk about...
...that only those with "political integrity are to be regarded as qualified students." Political tests for students were last seen during the Cultural Revolution. Another top education official called last week for students to be sent to factories and farms to be "integrated with reality and physical labor" -- another Maoist prescription...
...inevitable. Can it be contained by newborn and fragile "legal" norms? And how will Deng sustain his opening to the West, the alleged source of China's "spiritual pollution?" As important, Deng's preemptory behaviour in the present crisis has fractured the image of a new, un-Maoist leadership style that he had cultivated, as well as the carefully crafted succession structure he had put in place...
...epoch itself, seems to have been a historical aberration. More typically, China's young demonstrators have called for a quickened pace of reform. On April 5, 1976, students swelled the ranks of the 100,000 demonstrators who massed in Peking's Tiananmen Square to protest the removal by Maoist radicals of thousands of wreaths that had been placed at the Monument to the People's Heroes in memory of Premier Chou En-lai, who had died the previous January. The protesters obliquely attacked Mao and waved banners declaring support for Deng Xiaoping, then senior Deputy Premier. The demonstration quickly turned...
...murder were leaflets printed with the five- pointed star of Action Directe, a home-grown, radical leftist terrorist group that is committed to waging urban guerrilla war against "bourgeois imperialism." The tracts claimed responsibility for the shooting in the name of Action Directe "Commando Pierre Overney," a Maoist worker who was killed by police in 1972 during labor strife outside the main Renault factory in suburban Paris...