Word: proletarianization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...14th in the line of succession, fled the palace for India in 1959. Eight years after Chinese troops seized control of Tibet, he had attempted an uprising against the Communists that ended in bloody failure. Thousands of Tibetans were slaughtered as the Chinese consolidated their control. Even the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution reached into this mountain fastness. Now, our Tibetan guide told us, "Tibet is an inalienable part of China...
...Chinese formulate their political concerns. In Chinese the verb to suffer literally means to eat bitterness. The Chinese customarily talk about conflict in terms of "consuming enemies" or "being eaten" by them. Recently Mao himself described the temptations of bourgeois life as "sugarcoated bullets," more dangerous to the proletarian purity of the Chinese revolution than the lead bullets of the class enemy...
CHINA'S GREAT PROLETARIAN Cultural Revolution may never be fully explained to the outsider. An aura of mystery always remains, the legacy of the Western press's hazy early reports of the armies of the Red Guard marching back and forth across the nation, and Chairman Mao's heroic swim down the Yangtze--events without explanation, a massive eruption without obvious cause. In The Wind Will Not Subside, David and Nancy Dall Milton have made an effort to chronicle the course of the movement, from the first breath of internal debate through to the final turn to a new kind...
...group spent a day touring the Phillips Academy at Andover and was overwhelmed by its opulence. "I suppose my 'proletarian sense' was aroused a bit, and it did make me think about unequal social conditions. But," Rothenberg says smilingly, "the kids are so nice and the place is so beautiful, it is hard to feel anything but pleasure...
...Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against the Nationalist armies in 1946-49. A political moderate, during the 1966-67 Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution Chu Teh was attacked as a "big ruffian." He was titular head of state for the past 19 months and received China's foreign visitors after Mao's health failed last month...