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Born in Peking in 1949, Boorman had no formal education before coming to Harvard, though he had completed most of the book. He is concentrating in Applied that Chiang Kai-shek's Western-style tactic of concentrating massive forces in Mathematics and plans to do graduate work in philosophy...
...always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign humiliations, and, above all, to push the nation into the modern world. After the Communists moved in to capture the nationalist revolution, a bitter civil war left China in chaos...
...heir, Defense Minister Lin Piao, will take over the chairmanship of the party. His rule will most likely be only temporary; behind the scenes, the country may well be run by a collective leadership. Challengers are likely to rise from the radical left, headed by Mao's wife Chiang Ching and such Cultural Revolution stalwarts as Ideologue Chen Pota. Eventually, however, more moderate forces may prevail, perhaps clustered around Premier Chou En-lai and the politically savvy Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, General Huang Yung-sheng...
...lobbying, the vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking insists that it be absolved of the Korean War aggressor label and that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be expelled. Neither is likely to happen soon...
Beyond such steps, of course, remains the most troublesome issue: Taiwan. Washington steadfastly maintains that it is committed to Chiang Kai-shek's government, and by implication to his claim that he still heads the Republic of China. The U.S. is indeed committed to Chiang's regime by ties of history and honor. But it need not and cannot much longer sustain the fiction that Taiwan is China...