Word: revolutionism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous.
TWO decades after Communist soldiers marched into Peking to climax Mao Tse-tung's takeover of China, the road still seems long and tortuous, the struggle unremittingly arduous. Like many another reformer, Mao has found that building a country can be at least as difficult as making a revolution...
Virtually Ungovernable. When the Communists took over in 1949, China could hardly have been in worse condition. It was in the midst of a great historic drama-and the U.S. watched it with deep concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums...
Mao was shunted aside in the intraparty battles that followed the failure. A group of more pragmatic men, led by President Liu Shao-chi, set out to repair the damage. They were on the way to succeeding when Mao began stirring again. "Those in China now under the age of...
Many members of China's younger generation seem disaffected-some because they want no part of Maoist puritanism and idealism, others because they feel that the Chairman has not gone far enough in his efforts to regenerate the revolution. Indeed, throughout the population, the Cultural Revolution seriously undermined respect...