Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poster Scribblings. In recent months, draconology has gained a new dimension with the rise of the Red Guards. In Hong Kong and Tokyo, U.S. China watchers have taken to combing the Japanese newspapers, which have nine correspondents in Peking, for rundowns on the latest wall-poster scribblings. Though the vast Japanese intelligence network in China was totally obliterated in 1945, Tokyo has skillfully exploited its growing trade ($638 million in 1966) and other contacts with China to build a surveillance operation that is second only to that...
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has all but destroyed the last vestiges of social order. In fact, Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, admitted via wall poster that "the entire country is now in a state of civil...
...avoid all risks of a future comeback. "Black gangsters" are anti-Mao intellectuals, whose output is likely to be "poisonous weeds." Enemies of Mao who do not quite qualify as intellectuals are labeled "ghosts and monsters" who follow the "black line." The difficulty of distinguishing friendly from unfriendly posters, especially when nearly all invoke the blessing of Mao for their point of view, has led to a special sub-jargon. It warns against those "leftist in name, rightist in reality" who "wave the red flag to oppose the red flag." It also warns against "those who listen superficially...
...authenticity of poster accounts is as gnawing a problem for foreigners as it is for the Chinese in the streets. After nearly a year's practice at poster exegesis, Sinologists have developed some rules of thumb. When such officials as Mao, Lin Piao or Chiang Ching are quoted directly, the gist of their remarks is likely to be true. So are reports of high-level government meetings and accounts of the arrests of individuals. Less reliable in their detail are reports of bloody clashes, though they undoubtedly indicate that trouble of some sort took place. Attacks on individuals named...
Much of the poster spotting for the outside world is done by the nine Japanese reporters based in Peking. There are always more fresh posters each morning than all of them together can track down in a single day, and Peking's frigid winter is not conducive to street-corner translating. Result: some of the Japanese now photograph promising posters with their Polaroid cameras, then return to the warmth of their offices to translate them. Curious to see the mysterious poster warriors at work, one Japanese correspondent prowled Peking with a flashlight night after night. Although he was very...