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Chairman Mao Tsetung, the architect and chief engineer of Communist China, had a randy, raunchy side, according to his doctor and confidant. Physician Li Zhisui writes in his 663-page memoir, "The Private Life of Chairman Mao," that the iconic leader was a decadent, selfish cutthroat who enjoyed nightly massages, orgiastic romps and extramarital sex with young girls. Among the other grisly details: the doc says Mao didn't care about spreading a sexually-transmitted disease, stayed in his bathrobe weeks at a time and drank green tea in lieu of brushing his teeth...
Twenty years ago, as a 13-year-old student revolutionary, Xueliang Ding proclaimed the tenets of Mao Tsetung to youth rallies in China. Now, as a section leader, he will relate the events of China's Cultural Revolution to Harvard students...
Although Mao Zedong (Mao Tsetung) publicly disdained atomic weapons as paper tigers. China was determined to develop a nuclear capability whatever the cost and sacrifice--if necessary, "going without trousers," in the words of a former foreign minister...
...signed by, of all people, an auto mechanic in a nearby garage. In a society where the wall poster is the semiofficial harbinger of political shifts and cultural upheavals, the document on Wang Fu Ching Street was undeniably momentous. As part of a continuing campaign to deglorify Mao Tsetung, the poster dared for the first time to criticize the late Great Helmsman by name for serious political mistakes. Indirectly, in a move that could have ominous repercussions, the poster also criticized Hua Kuo-feng, Mao's chosen successor as Party Chairman and Premier...
...were reporting daily from the provinces that the long-running effort to wipe out the influence of the "Gang of Four" was encountering some unpleasant resistance. It was "shocking and intolerable," said one report, that a number of cadres had failed to root out all the allies of Mao Tsetung's wife Chiang Ch'ing and her cohorts. There were still some officials, declared one newspaper darkly, who insisted upon "exercising fascist dictatorship over the people...