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...family. Like Chou, Teng went to France on a work-study program when he was 16. Before he left Paris six years later, he had joined the Chinese Communist Party. He returned home (by way of Moscow) to become a guerrilla commander after the Communist split with Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang in 1927. Also like Chou, he is a veteran of Mao's legendary Long March, which until recently was essential for anyone hoping to rise high in the party hierarchy. In 1954, after service as Minister of Finance and Vice Premier, Teng was named the party's Secretary...
...bureaucracy's inveterate enemy remains a radical clique centering around Mao's wife Chiang Ching; perhaps by exploiting the dissatisfactions of youth, this group can in time make another serious bid for power. These potential frictions will probably not develop until Mao passes from the scene. Says Boston University China Scholar Merle Goldman: "Just as Chou's power came ultimately from Mao, so does Teng...
China furnishes proof that total revolution does not necessarily bring equality of the sexes. Women dress like men, walk like men, work like men, but, with the exception of Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, few have attained positions of importance in the country...
...both countries were exploited colonies of Japan; they lacked natural resources and had almost no industrial base. Moreover, South Korea suffered a devastating war between 1950 and 1953, while Taiwan was shaken by the Communist takeover of the Chinese mainland and the subsequent arrival of 2 million of Chiang Kai-shek's followers...
Vast Monolith. Today, of course, it is part of the conventional wisdom that it was Chiang Kai-shek and his coterie of corrupt politicians and generals who "lost" China. But in the '50s, distinctions were not so easy to draw. Most Americans admired Chiang as a hero-and in many respects he was. Convinced of Nationalist China's democratic policies, the public saw the Generalissimo as a leader in the Western tradition and was moved by memories of his fight against Imperial Japan. The foreign left seemed a vast, threatening monolith. Given this new climate of fear...