Word: tse-tung
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...China prepared for its National Day, celebrating the 18th anniversary this week of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation of a Chinese Communist state, Correspondent John Cantwell crossed into Mao's stricken land for TIME. An Australian who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, Cantwell spent several days in the big South China city of Canton, the scene of recent anti-Maoist riots and disorders. He found the city of 2,500,000 relatively quiet on the surface but seething underneath with barely repressed violence. His report...
...exaggeration. Rhetoric and hyperbole are built into Chinese grammar, and the Chinese by nature are prone to overstatement. None practice verbal inflation with greater verve than the South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked by the clash of armies and awash in internecine blood...
...July 24 Cambridge riot. Denied bail, Rap was hustled off to Richmond's escape-proof penitentiary, then to a nearby prison farm for what could be a month-long stay while the extradition battle is resolved. For light reading, he took along the little red book of Mao Tse-tung's thoughts...
...Station. Since Mao Tse-tung took over the Chinese mainland, immigration via Hong Kong has swelled incrementally: more than 4,000 Chinese a year now settle in the Bay Area, creating a job shortage so severe that exploitation is the order of the day-and night. The traditional Chinese family fabric has visibly frayed. With mothers working, delinquency climbs. Tenement squalor sustains a tuberculosis rate double that of San Francisco as a whole...
This is his way of paying respect to another man's mind. There was an interior distance which I did not meet again until much later in Mao Tse-tung...