Word: piao
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week to a wall in downtown Peking by a number of workers who had journeyed from Hunan province. The letter complained of foot dragging in the five-month-old campaign to promote revolutionary fervor whose symbolic targets are 1) the ancient philosopher Confucius and 2) Defense Minister Lin Piao, who allegedly died in a mysterious plane crash in September 1971. The open letter and other hand-printed posters appearing on walls throughout the country are the latest indications of an intensified drive against moderate Chinese officials...
...very least, there were strong indications last week that the war of words and ideas was building toward a climax. Wall posters in Shanghai, long a center of radical activity, promised that the campaign directed at Confucius and former Defense Minister Lin Piao would soon turn to specific attacks on individuals and organizations throughout China...
Unquestionably, the castigations of Peach Mountain were related to the anti-Confucius, anti-Lin Piao campaign that has been unfolding in China during recent months (TIME, Feb. 18). But it also raised a larger question that has puzzled China watchers since the movement began: Just who is in charge...
...most baffling features of China's latest cultural revolution is the concerted ideological attack on the sayings and teachings of Confucius. Last week the posthumous drubbing of the ancient sage, whose name is frequently linked with that of the dead, disgraced former Defense Minister Lin Piao, continued unabated. New meetings of the masses denounced Confucius "and his like" as "buffoons who had a place only in the garbage of history." Lin was again condemned for "preaching the rubbish of Confucianism as part of his attempt to restore capitalism in China." It is almost as if the gentle philosopher were...
...many ways he is. And that late "bourgeois careerist, renegade and traitor" Lin Piao is far from being the only one to fall under his influence. As the mounting ideological attacks on the "four olds" (old thought, old culture, old customs and old habits) indicate, the traditional Confucian values have died hard in China and remain an obstacle to the success of Mao's revolution...