Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In the rampaging heyday of the Red Guards, their chief cheerleader, den mother and Joan of Arc was Chiang Ching, the fourth Mrs. Mao Tse-tung. A onetime movie actress from Shanghai, she clearly enjoyed her sudden role in the limelight after years of obscurity at Mao's side...
Stubbornly Hoarding. Keeping the kids in line continues to present problems, though. The poorer students from rural backgrounds made the first and best Red Guards, and they developed a taste for status and power that their school careers cannot provide. Their teachers are having difficulty regaining their old authority, since...
Peking is also having difficulty in pulling the nation as a whole back from the precipice of the civil war nearly brought on by the revolution. The central part of China is now fairly well pacified, but feuds rippling out from the revolution are still roiling such remoter provinces as...
Industrial production has also suffered. Japan, one of China's preferred customers, received 10% to 12% less imports from China in 1967, and several hopeful foreign buyers at the recent Canton trade fair came back emptyhanded. Since many Chinese factories were shut down all during 1967 by the revolution...
The minds of Cuba's 7.8 million citizens have rarely needed more diverting. Che Guevara is dead, and with him Castro's dream of leading a continent-wide revolution in Latin America. Cuba's relations with its Russian allies are at their lowest point since the 1962...