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This wasn't simply a victory for sleight-of-hand politics, Vogel argues. The Cantonese, like all Chinese, hungered for material progress and a sense of national purpose-dreams that had fueled the revolution. As a veteran of that revolution, T'ao convinced the Cantonese he dreamed those same dreams, and on that basis they accepted...
...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...
...Guards were beginning to engulf the country. Vogel tells how T'ao frantically telephoned his deputies in Canton, urging them to save their necks by organizing compliant, home grown Red Guards. Leftists in Peking, getting wind of this, sent swarms of Red Guards from the north into Canton. In a matter of weeks they smashed T'ao's organization, just as, 15 years before, he and his men from the north had pushed out the local Cantonese leaders...
...Cantonese in 1968 seemed forced to start all over again, as they had in 1949, to build a party apparatus, increase production, and figure out how their city, along with all the other torn, bloodied parts of China, might fit back into one whole. They faced this long haul, Vogel says, "with less optimism. less idealism, and less willingness to sacrifice," yet with "more wisdom and experience...
Despite the turmoil, Vogel insists, in 20 years the Communists have welded a tightly disciplined, centralized approach to national problems that guides the thinking of local leaders throughout the country. This great improvement over Chiang Kai-shek's warlord juggling lets the Chinese approach their goals more surefootedly in 1970 than...