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...dependent on Soviet military help. Yet the region is not sufficiently industrialized to support a classic, Russian-style proletarian uprising, and the illiterate, fatalistic fellahin of the villages are too conservative, too steeped in the concepts of familial loyalty and the Islamic faith to become conscripts in a Maoist peasant revolt...
...decision to visit China in person has compromised the U.S. bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite as a forerunner of their mass movement...
...climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform the traditional Chinese peasant-passive, materialistic, instinctively dependent on a ruling elite -into a new Maoist Man. He would be self-reliant but unswervingly loyal to the state, a faithful fanatic who would "neither seek fame or gain nor fear hardship or death, but toil body and soul for the people." Only such...
...fascination with Jesus a passing, adolescent infatuation? There are obvious fad aspects: Jesus shirts (JESUS is MY LORD) bumper stickers (SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU), posters, buttons (THE MESSIAH is THE MESSAGE) and, inevitably, a Jesus-People wristwatch. Some followers are affecting a Christ couture: white pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There are de rigueur catch phrases: endless "Praise Gods" and "Bless Yous." There is even a "Jesus cheer"?"Give me a J, give me an E . . ." Rapidly catching on is the Jesus-People "sign," a raised arm with clenched fist, the index finger pointed heavenward, to indicate Jesus...
...Prabang, on a DC-3, costs about five dollars. On Air America it is free, if you are a persuasive and persistent hitchhiker. I was lucky enough to get on one of Air America's cargo planes going to Luang Prabang. The plane was stuffed full of crates and peasant refugees, being readied for resettlement in "strategic hamlets...