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Just, please, don't dignify Ice-T's contribution with the word sedition. The past masters of sedition -- men like George Washington, Toussaint-Louverture, Fidel Castro or Mao Zedong, all of whom led and won armed insurrections -- would be unimpressed by Cop Killer and probably saddened. They would shake their heads and mutter words like "infantile" and "adventurism." They might point out that the cops are hardly a noble target, being, for the most part, honest working stiffs who've got stuck with the job of patrolling ghettos ravaged by economic decline and official neglect...
...EMPERORS by Harrison E. Salisbury (Little, Brown; $24.95). Enlivened by dozens of interviews, this narrative history of China under communism by a seasoned journalist documents the chaos and corruption of Mao Zedong's reign and the inexorable trend toward glasnost that started under Deng Xiaoping...
...Brown; 544 pages; $24.95) and The Claws of the Dragon: Kang Sheng by John Byron and Robert Pack (Simon & Schuster; 560 pages; $27.50) -- indicate that glasnost is coming, inexorably, to Beijing. They provide the most detailed and personal accounts so far of the chaos, cruelty and corruption that Mao Zedong's reign inflicted on the nation...
What happened? For many years, historians believed that Stalin had given Mao Zedong marching orders. Now comes the first official evidence that Mao acted on his own in the interests of national defense. Smuggled to the West, a collection of Mao's secret telegrams from 1950 appears to vindicate scholars who have long argued that Beijing sought to repel what it feared was U.S. encroachment. Otherwise, Mao warns in one message, "the American invaders will run more rampant" and encourage "the arrogance of reactionaries" in China. Stanford historian Gordon Chang says the cables show how many signals were missed...
That left Chiang and his Chinese Nationalists to fight on against the Japanese, the growing communist guerrilla forces of Mao Zedong and a clutch of surviving warlords. On the night of July 7, 1937, came the murky events that constituted the long-expected "incident." A Japanese soldier apparently wandered off to relieve himself near the Marco Polo Bridge, outside Beijing. His comrades, who later claimed they feared he had been kidnapped, got into a gunfight with a nearby Chinese Nationalist unit, and the fighting soon spread...