Word: sinologist
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...from U.N. headquarters, where we mustered a team that itself resembles a small international body. Our U.N. coverage is supervised by German-born Friedel Ungeheuer, who has worked in Africa, Europe and the U.S. for TIME. While a Harvard student, he studied Chinese history under Benjamin Schwartz, a leading Sinologist whom he interviewed for this week's story. William Mader, a native of Hungary, recently returned...
...shrill ideological statement to Peking radio. It will have to make decisions and take actions, and more often than not that will mean compromise. In the long spell, practical politics in the pursuit of attainable goals could be the death of dogmatism in China. But, as University of Michigan Sinologist Alexander Eckstein notes, "We are still far from out of the woods with China." In other words, the men from Peking should be good for several spectacular seasons at the glass-and-steel soapbox in Manhattan...
Unhappily, as Sinologist Doak Barnett points out in his book, A New U.S. Policy Toward China, Washington faces a dilemma. "Every possible course of action," writes Barnett, "involves some undesirable costs and risks." There is, in short, no easy solution...
Classic Examples. Walker cites many sources-including such Internal Security subcommittee favorites as the New York Times, the Washington Post and Radio Moscow-for his figures. Conceivably his tabulations could be close to the truth, though most Sinologists doubt it. Mao himself once guessed that 800,000 died during the land seizures of 1949-52, which saw the last mass executions known to have occurred in China. But Sinologist Stuart Schram reckons that the true toll might have run as high as 3,000,000. How many Chinese have been executed, starved or otherwise killed during the years of turmoil...
...size of the British Empire at its zenith-was an epic achievement. But Mao Tse-tung's ambitions did not stop there. A few months after his conversation with Malraux, Mao launched the cataclysmic Cultural Revolution. It was the climax, perhaps the final one, in what M.I.T. Sinologist Lucien Pye describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform the traditional Chinese peasant-passive, materialistic, instinctively dependent on a ruling elite -into a new Maoist...