Word: tse-tung
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...that Peking's theoretical journal Red Flag, in an editorial entitled "Long Live Leninism," fired the first shot in the Sino-Soviet conflict by challenging Moscow's claim to be the only true interpreter of Lenin's thoughts. Lately the Chinese have been emphasizing that Mao Tse-tung has carried Lenin's theories to a "higher and completely new stage" by integrating "the universal truth of Marxism-Leninism with the concrete practice of revolution." In apparent anticipation of the centennial, the Chinese party has attributed the "theoretical basis" of its thinking to something called "Marxism-Leninism...
...remark that "Communism is inevitable in Asia. When? Oh, not tomorrow. The Chinese don't think in years, not even in lustrums. They have time with them." The next day he may complain that Chinese children in Cambodia's schools "bring in Mao Tse-tung's books and carry out all types of subversive activities...
...hard one, inasmuch as the papers often reflect a zest for rebellion and four-letter words. But the case of the Street Journal & San Diego Free Press is something special. Intelligible and far from salacious, it manages to denounce pollution and corruption without invoking Mao Tse-tung. It even recommended the family movie Oliver! to its readers while suggesting earplugs for the "pretentious dialogue" of drug-oriented Easy Rider...
...Albanians-who recently received three different Peking Cabinet delegations-have also unleashed something akin to Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards. But where Mao's obstreperous young Praetorians deliberately sought to foment anarchy as a way of reviving the regime's revolutionary spirit, Hoxha's guards have become Tirana's disciplinary watchdogs. Some purges have already begun at the district level...
...Tse-tung and the rest of the Peking leadership were determined to bring them to heel, and in a fascinating chapter Vogel recounts how northerners and southerners chose up sides over one issue-land reform. The Cantonese preferred to go slow and easy. Some of the top Cantonese Communists had friends or relatives who were landlords. Taking their land was embarrassing and awkward...