Word: peng
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the replies of Mao's comrades are not generally included in these papers, there is evidence that this style of polemic has been characteristic of secret meetings. When Mao seemed taken aback by the criticism leveled at him during the stormy Lushan conference, Peng Teh-huai, who had long received more than a fair share of abuse from the Chairman, lashed back at him. "You f-ed my mother for 40 days," Peng told Mao, "so why can't I f- yours for 20?" Recalling the incident later, Mao wryly observed: "Even 20 days wasn...
...rely on him for perhaps the most accurate and detailed dispatches out of China. In 1960, he first reported the sure sign of a Sino-Soviet split: an exodus of Russian technicians. In 1966, he was the first to report the downfall of the once-powerful Peking mayor, Peng Chen. While other China-based correspondents hesitated, he reported flatly that Lin Piao had been picked as Mao's successor...
...fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides of three other Mao enemies: Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, Economic Planner Po Yi-po, and Supreme People's Court President Yang Hsiu-feng. Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's hero of the Korean War, was reported under arrest...
High party officials began to fall from power: Peking Party Boss Peng Chen; the capital's Deputy Mayor Wu Han; Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching; Culture Minister Lu Ting-yi. Most of the party purge victims were latecomers to Maoism (only Lo and Lu were on the Long March...
Within the year, Lin and fellow Red army marshals-Liu Po-cheng ("The One-Eyed Dragon"), Chen Yi and Peng Teh-huai-had captured all of China, and the grand guerrilla mystique of Mao had proved victorious over the enemy, which outnumbered the Reds 2 to 1. Then, like some ghostly hero whose legends demand his presence only in times of great crisis, Lin Piao dropped from prominence...