Word: posterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swim by Swimming. Like news being flashed on a neon sign in Times Square, accounts of the Nanking battle quickly appeared on Red Guard posters on Peking's walls. "Suddenly," said one wall poster, "an attack was mounted by the workers on our revolutionary group office, and 20 of our comrades were dragged away." When other Red Guards went to negotiate for their release, "the workers suddenly turned atrocious and ripped off the fingers, noses, tongues and ears of our representatives. After murdering them, they threw the bodies from the fourth-floor windows. The situation in Nanking is exceedingly...
...naked struggle for personal power in Peking was becoming so vicious that no one was any longer immune from at least passing poster defamation-partly because Liu and his supporters seemed to be putting up a few posters of their own, thereby confusing everyone. Thus last week posters popped up demanding: "Burn Chou En-lai to death!" As fast as they went up, they were torn down and replaced with signs proclaiming that anyone against Chou ought to have "his head bashed in." Foreign Minister Chen Yi, considered a Mao man, was also attacked. When Reuters attempted to file...
Last week was particularly rewarding for Peking poster watchers. On Mao's 73rd birthday there appeared, crying aloud, though presumably writ small, since it was 3,000 words in length, the "confession" of President Liu Shao-chi, Mao's principal antagonist in his effort to "purify" Chinese Communism. Liu's "self-criticism," a long-practiced art among Chinese Communists, traced a litany of "sins" reaching back...
...Guard introduction to the poster said that Liu had made his confession last October at a party caucus. And for all the Red Guard denunciations before and since, Liu is still President of China. The conclusion of Sinologists: Mao's opposition, including such "revisionists" as Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, is still too powerfully entrenched in the party apparatus, still has too much of a following in the countryside to be summarily ousted...
...Fifth Bomb. Some previously unscathed idols were also tarred by Guard posters last week. Attacked as a backslider was Chen Yi, the nation's durable Vice Premier and Foreign Minister. There was no "confession" from Chen Yi, though. After the posters appeared, he continued to act as one of Mao's spokesmen by publicly lambasting the Russians for their "dirty political deals." Even more surprising was an attack on Tao Chu, who has risen rapidly since last August to become one of Mao's inner circle as party propaganda chief. Tao Chu appeared at a rally...