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...intricacies of Chinese politics. Recalls Author Theodore H. White, who knew Chou in the 1940s: "The greatest compliment he could pay anyone was to say, 'Aha! At last you're beginning to understand China.'" Unlike Mao, Chou was not a theoretician, but rather a kind of inspired pragmatist???"a builder, not a poet," as his old friend Journalist Edgar Snow put it. Nevertheless, he was a supporter of certain of the doctrines of Mao, especially the Chairman's lifelong campaign to prevent the revolutionary leadership from hardening into a new "revisionist" ruling class. Over the years, Chou became China...
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