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...press and its sources were sort of taken aback when their speculation fell through and Hua Kuofeng, instead of Teng, took Chou's place. The mark on Teng's political record limits the amount of influence he can really hold. In his book, Prisoner of Mao, Jean Pasqualini recounts a conversation with the chief warden of a Chinese prison for "reform through labor" (Lao Gai) that might have some bearing on the way things have turned out for Teng Hsiao-ping. Many former inmates of this labor camp for ideological reform continued to hold jobs there, away from their families...
...Pasqualini spent seven years in several labor camps, the likes of which presumably still exist and, as the only Westerner to come out of them, he provides an unusual insight into the philosophy that pervades Chinese life and politics--although from his account it's hard to tell just where the difference between the two lies. Pasqualini's French nationality offered a vague hope that his experience as a "broken plate" would end differently from that of Chinese prisoners. This was, indeed, realized by his release halfway through his sentence, in 1964, when the French and Chinese governments officially recognized...
French on his father's side, Pasqualini's mother was Chinese, and he was born and educated at mission schools in Peking, "a thoroughly rotten and reactionary, bourgeois education," as he concedes, without coming across too abashedly. He speaks four languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and his work for the U.S. Army in the early '50s as a machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed...
From the Paris bureau they received an unexpected contribution -an intimate, first-hand report on Chinese Communism from the staff librarian, Jean Pasqualini. Born in Peking of a Chinese mother and a Corsican father, Pasqualini served as an interpreter for the U.S. Marines after World War II, later was arrested by Mao's police, charged with spying and sentenced to twelve years in a labor camp. After serving seven years, Pasqualini was released...
...Alberto Pasqualini, who had established freedom of the press in the State of Rio Grande do Sul last January, was fired as that state's Secretary of the Interior...