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...YU YING-SHIH, Chinese historian: Gandhi, a religious saint of the highest moral principles, but also a political leader who worked for the rights of the depressed and disinherited classes. He had no personal greed for power but cared rather for the welfare of the people, using persuasion instead of violence, never allowing expediency to justify a deviation from the truth...
Moral government was part of The Way, but dissent in its absence clearly was not--The Master said, "He who holds no rank in a State does not discuss its policies." To those with modest power, his disciple Tzu-yu added, "In the service of one's prince, repeated scolding can lead only to loss of favor." And in Imperial China, favor was with-drawn with a vengeance--China's greatest historian, Ssu-ma Ch'ien, was castrated for defending a general who had fallen into the disfavor of a Han emperor. Ssu's action had been morally correct...
According to Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Yu Chan, the five Russians were nabbed two weeks ago with a large cache of incriminating evidence including a radio transmitter and receiver, "counter-revolutionary documents," and code books. At first the Chinese denied knowing where the Russians were, said Moscow, but after two days, the diplomats and their wives were allowed vis its from Soviet embassy officials. Two days later the five were hustled aboard a plane bound for Moscow...
...Peking and at the same tune dismantle the network of personal loyalties built up by Chen Hsi-lien, 60, the military commander of the northern region for more than 14 years. Chen was sent to Peking as commander of the capital military region. Another powerful Politburo member, Hsu Shih-yu, 67, was uprooted from the comfortable Yangtze barony of the Nanking military region he had held for the past 16 years and sent to Canton, even though he reportedly cannot speak Cantonese...
...long beards worn by Ts'ao Ts'ao, General Ts'ao Hung and their principal adversary, the loyal General Kuan Yu, symbolize great age. The thin soles worn by the protagonists in The Cowherd and the Village Girl establish their low station in life. Waving ribbons, such as those used by the title character in The Heavenly Angel, may indicate anything from the sea to clouds to the wind. Since many a Chinese opera can run as long as seven hours, the evening's program is wisely limited to climactic excerpts from these and such other...