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...seemed a cultural crime. In mainland China during the late 1960s, as part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, the ancient art of Peking opera was deliberately put to death. The person responsible was Mao's wife, Chinese Cultural Queen Chiang Ching. To Madame Mao, Peking opera was bourgeois, reactionary, too concerned with court life. She replaced it with an unadorned, realistic style of opera that celebrates the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. Gone forever, or so it seemed, were the highly stylized music dramas about kings and concubines, scholars and lute...
...took a Silber-appointed committee only 12 days to produce a code that would make Chiang Kai-Shek or Nguyen Van Thieu green with envy. Silber appointed the drafting committee. Silber will appoint the hearing examiner. Silber will appoint the committee which, in turn, has power to appoint the judicial committees, or panels of jurors. Of course, defendants will be entitled to appeal the jury's decision. The appeal will be heard by "the president of the University or a party or review body designated by him." On April 25, as B.U. classes were ending, the students...
Author Richard Bach may be surprised to learn that his inspirational flight manual, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, has run into flak from a Red Guard group in Fukien province. Noting the popularity of the "tasteless and absurd" book in Chiang Kai-shek's Taiwan, the group, via "Fukien Front" radio, has attacked what it calls "the Chiang gang's insidious motive in advocating the seagull character." The motive: to persuade intellectuals to oppose Communism. "Prominent personages in the Chiang gang," noted the young Red Guards, "have even openly called on the people to act like this particular seagull, pursue...
...surprise was the election of a relatively youthful (37) Shanghai party leader, Wang Hung-wen, as one of the five vice chairmen. A onetime textile worker and later a boss of the city's rampaging Red Guards, Wang has powerful patrons-among them Mao's wife Chiang Ching. At the Congress, Wang gave the important report on the revision of the party constitution-a role possibly assigned by Mao himself. These developments make Wang one of the party's most important leaders...
There, remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang army, swelled by local recruits, have plied the opium trade ever since they gave up trying to harass the Chinese Communists 25 years ago. Last year, Bangkok and the U.S. paid the Kuomintang's two most powerful leaders, General Li Wen-huan and General Tuan Shi-wen, nearly $2,000,000 to get out of the opium traffic. Thai authorities believe that they have not yet ceased their trading. They will be the next targets of the crackdown...