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Tract & Polemic. People's Daily, largest and most widely circulated journal ever published in China, is edited by shy, chain-smoking Wu Leng-hsi. who reportedly lost an eye fighting during the civil war. Wu is also director of the government's Hsinhua News Agency ("the ear and mouth of the Party. Government and People"), which is closely allied to People's Daily, has 31 bureaus in China and 23 overseas, e.g.. Geneva. London, Paris...
Since both People's Daily and Hsinhua (also known as the New China News Agency) are directly responsible to the party's propaganda department. Editor Wu gives his readers their three cents' worth of tract and polemic. Major party decisions are announced in customarily unsigned editorials, e.g., last month's blast at "deviationist" Yugoslavia. On occasion, People's Daily even carries punditry under the most imposing bylines in the nation: Premier Chou En-lai and Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...Chivied into collective farms, and harried by a series of natural disasters that ravaged 38 million acres of land inhabited by 70 million people (according to Chou En-lai's figures), China's peasants have become increasingly restive. Just how restive was made clear by Tung Pi-wu, President of the Supreme People's Court, who told the People's Congress that during the past year Red China's courts handled 1,000,000 cases of "corruption, theft, assault, public disturbances" and other crimes, most of them involving peasants...
Emperor Ming Huang was also a great lover of nature. Homesick for mountains, he one day ordered two of his painters to reproduce the scenery of the Kialing Valley. Artist Wu Tao-tzu went out to lie under the trees, listen to the murmuring streams. Then, having identified himself with the scene, he took his brush, dashed off One Hundred Miles of the Kialing River Valley in a single day. Artist Li Ssu-hsun, who was also a general in the Emperor's army, labored for long months to depict the same scene. Presented to the Emperor, both paintings...
Neither painting in the competition has survived, but both the followers of Wu and General Li can be traced throughout Chinese painting history. And some idea of what Li's painstaking rendition looked like can be got from a work of the general's son, Li Chao-tao (known as the "Little General"). Travelers in a Mountain Pass (opposite], a rare, 1,000-year-old painting on silk, is believed to be his. Done in metallic blues and greens, it creates a panorama of cloud-shrouded peaks and gorges against which is shown a group of horsemen...