Word: szu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when it threatened to become too disruptive. Last August an article in the theoretical journal Red Flag blamed internal bickering and factionalism for the fall of the brutal, short-lived Chin dynasty of the 3rd century B.C. This subtle piece of historical allegory was written by one Lo Szu-ting; Sinologists regard him as a spokesman for Mao-if not Mao himself writing under a pen name. Since then, there has been scarcely a murmur from the radicals...
...chief brain washer of Red China is Ai Szu-chi, director of the all-important Federation of Democratic Youth. More heard than seen, Ai gives long-winded, ponderous lectures over Radio Peking. A native of Yunnan and a comrade of long standing, he edits a turgidly written monthly called, appropriately, Hsueh Hsi, in which he answers tricky questions concerning correct Marxist conduct. Ai really shines, however, in the six so-called "revolutionary universities" where young Chinese twigs are first bent...
Self-Examining. The highlight is the Tuesday lecture given by Ai Szu-chi. Sometimes he is there in person; at other times he is heard on records. These lectures, the only ones given at the university, last as a rule from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The gist of Ai's "philosophy" is contained in a book of his called Historical Materialism, which has become the virtual Bible of hsueh hsi. (Sample excerpts: "Communism is the exquisite acme of man's social evolution . . . The capitalistic world is being pushed into the grave step by step...
Professor Chi Szu-ho: "I, too, once asked for American aid to China. I now realize my mistake in taking our enemy to be our friend...
China's scholarly Dr. Hu Shih, former president of Peking National University and Ambassador to Washington from 1938 to 1942, is now in the U.S., a refugee from his country's Red rulers. His son, Hu Szu-tu, 28, is still behind the Bamboo Curtain, has already undergone the so-called "new learning" in political science at the North China Revolutionary University in Peking...