Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To dare attack Mao Tse-tung in China today, however fierce the battle raging around him, is in itself a dangerously fanatic act. At 73, Mao is still the Sun God (as he is so often depicted, his face radiating fire in all directions), father figure and charismatic czar of...
Even all that would hardly suffice to protect Liu if Mao had chosen to act quickly and decisively in a classic purge. But he did not, for Mao's purge is part and parcel of a far vaster dream that is contained in his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. It...
No Tape Recording. Mao chose the People's Liberation Army, as one instrument to spread the revolution, and put Defense Minister Lin Piao to work preparing it for its mission of spreading the gospel-and trying to ensure its loyalty, which is the key to much that happens in...
Inspiring as such examples seemed in print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its...
Meantime, nearly every other element in Chinese society was under some sort of purifying assault. Such cultural entities as the National Peking Opera Theater were put under army control for having harbored artists who tried to "undermine the revolution and oppose change." China's Young Communist League was disbanded...