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...hopes through some formula to achieve diplomatic ties with Peking without abandoning its commitments to Taiwan. But the issue will probably not be settled until both Mao Tse-tung, now 77, and Chiang Kaishek, 83, pass into history, along with their personal hatreds. Only then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall...
...window unexpectedly opened on Mao Tse-tung's xenophobic society last month when China admitted a handful of foreign correspondents, including the New York Times's Tillman Durdin, an old China hand, and LIFE'S John Saar. The view turned out to be carefully circumscribed and minimally enlightening. True to his promise to admit Western newsmen "in batches," Premier Chou En-lai last week invited another group of correspondents to China. Included: the New York Times's assistant managing editor Seymour Topping, who has already entered the country, Robert Keatley of the Wall Street Journal...
...impressions brought or cabled home to the U.S. from China last week evoked an image of a society unusually unified and content within itself. The Chinese people seemed genuinely enthusiastic about their condition. With an almost disconcerting unanimity, they answered questions with an appropriate quotation from Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The image was undoubtedly too simple, though roughly true as far as it went. Still, it must be remembered that the travelers were shown mostly showcase spots that are on the itinerary of nearly every foreign visitor. As fascinating as those sights were, they hardly gave a full view...
...Most Chinese would have to save for two years to buy a bicycle, which costs $35 to $45. They work eight hours a day, six days a week (overtime is unpaid but acknowledged in valuable political merit points). Leisure time is spent picnicking, swimming, hiking-in emulation of Mao Tse-tung's "long march" to the Yenan caves in the '30s-or reading the Chairman's thoughts. But the drabness of the austere blue, gray or green uniforms that all Chinese wear on the streets is not entirely a true picture. Many Chinese like to dress...
...populace amounts to 40 million persons. Reports Wong Bing-wong: "The life map of China still has its peaks and valleys. Politically there are areas where people in substantial numbers do not, or at least try not to, have anything to do with the party or Mao Tse-tung...