Word: tzu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just returned from Peking reported: "The war in Korea . . . is already somewhat of a surprise to the Chinese." Hospitals in Manchuria, he added, could not take care of the great number of casualties. Mao Tse-tung and other Red Chinese strategists, who like to read the maxims of Sun-tzu, the ancient (500 B.C.) Chinese Clausewitz, now found themselves up against a field strategy similar to the one that had helped bring down Europe's great 19th Century aggressor...
...guerrillas, Mao years ago reminted some good advice originally coined by Sun Tzu, China's sth Century B.C. Clausewitz: "When the enemy advances, we retreat. When he escapes, we harass. When he retreats, we pursue. When he is tired, we attack." For comrades everywhere he wrote a military treatise, Strategic Problems (published in Yenan in 1941), that probably ranks as a classic on irregular warfare. Its precepts boldly give directions for destroying "an enemy 20 times our number...
...Measure of Maturity. Wu Kuo-cheng was born in 1903 in the mountains of Central China, grew up in Peking, where his peasant-born father was director of military training for the Imperial Chinese army. In Peking's yellow-roofed Forbidden City, Dowager Empress Tzu-hsi (also known as the "Venerable Buddha") still occupied the Dragon Throne, and China still lay in the heavy torpor of her past. While Wu was in school, Sun Yat-sen and his followers rudely yanked at the queue of Chinese tradition, dethroned the Manchus and established the Chinese Republic...