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Since Mao's death, the American press has limited its discussion of Chinese politics to a couple of contending factions, dubbed "radicals" and "moderates." The radicals are said to be largely the ideological followers and offspring of Mao, including his widow, Chiang Ching, who is usually described as an uppity and outspoken woman, while the less inscrutable moderates are made out to be relatively uninterested in ideological purity when economic efficiency is at stake; one moderate name that seems bandied about is Chen Hsi-lin, commander of the Peking military region. Hua Kuo-feng has managed to elude being tied...
...army marched and fought across 7000 miles of rugged, Kuomintang dominated terrain, losing 90,000 of its 100,000 troops. The Kuomintang also killed Mao's sister and first wife. Only after the Second World War were the communists able to devastate the U.S.-backed forces of General Chiang Kai-Shek, until eventually and finally China's major cities "fell like ripened fruit...
...study Marxism; there he met Chou En-lai and joined the Chinese Communist Party. Back in China, he joined forces in 1928 with Mao Tse-tung, who was organizing the Red Fourth Army. Chu Teh led the 6,000-mile Long March to Shensi province to avoid destruction by Chiang Kai-shek and was Mao's field commander in the successful struggle against the Nationalist armies in 1946-49. A political moderate, during the 1966-67 Great Cultural Proletarian Revolution Chu Teh was attacked as a "big ruffian." He was titular head of state for the past 19 months...
...past two years, excavations around Ban Chiang have yielded 18 tons of artifacts, including sophisticated clay pottery. But the most remarkable finds are the bronze spearheads, anklets and bracelets that predate the Middle East's Bronze Age by 600 years and the Bronze Age in China by about 1,000 years. "To make bronze in 3600 B.C. means that these people had an understanding of metallurgy that seems to have been unparalleled in any other area in the world at that time," says Gorman...
...those of Bronze Age Mesopotamia, their sophisticated implements suggest that they had a high standard of living. Artifacts unearthed at the dig show that the early settlers grew rice, raised animals such as pigs and chickens" and probably believed in an afterlife. The findings also suggest that Ban Chiang's residents lived a peaceful existence. The archaeologists found few weapons of war -and no arrow points in any of the 126 intact skeletons unearthed...