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...which sometimes reads like Chinese Beckett, the tragic necessity of sacrifice is never absent. The book's translator, Andrew Jones, compares its informal structure to traditional Chinese opera?but instead of the public celebration of life experienced in such art, Yu depicts a community that is forced by perverse Maoist mandates to revel in the destruction of its weakest members. Though Yu might no longer dream of performing unanesthetized dental work on his poor characters, he's ever willing to take a drill to the society that torments them...
...Terror Museum. Most of the display cases hold police-confiscated kitsch: rebel soap carvings, music boxes that play communist hymns, all of them bearing the image of Abimael Guzmán. "Presidente Gonzalo," as his followers call him, is the leader of Shining Path, the bloodthirsty Maoist guerrillas who killed more than half of the 69,000 Peruvians who died in the armed conflicts of the 1980s and early '90s, according to a report issued in August by Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Nearby is a lifelike dummy of Guzmán in the striped prison uniform he wore...
...course, that assumes the thing works. China's space record is mixed. Beijing launched its first satellite in 1970--which broadcast back to Earth the Maoist anthem The East Is Red--but that program suffered a string of disastrous explosions in the mid-1990s. The Shenzhou has flown only four times in unmanned trials, in contrast with the Mercury program, which NASA tested more than a dozen times before Alan Shepard became the first American in space in 1961. All four Shenzhou craft returned from orbit, but not all accomplished their missions. The Shenzhou II is widely believed to have...
...suspicion and a certain belligerent petulance. But in the past few months, under Hu's leadership, Beijing has emerged as an increasingly sophisticated and mature player on the global stage, a power more intent on diplomatic pragmatism that preserves the country's robust economic growth than on replaying the Maoist rhetoric of confrontation. "Hu puts more emphasis on substance in foreign policy rather than on symbols," says Chu Shulong, director of the Institute of Strategic Studies at Beijing's Tsinghua University, who advises the Chinese leadership on foreign affairs. "[Former President] Jiang Zemin tended to focus more on symbolic victories...
...Trouble in Kathmandu Re your article on Maoist violence and political upheaval in Nepal [Sept. 15]: It seems the only hope for us Nepalese living in Kathmandu is to leave our homes, our families and our memories and run away. There is, however, almost no chance of our doing this. The Maoists' so-called war has been effective largely because the media sensationalize every small story. As a result, the Nepalese are frightened. The Maoists used the cease-fire to reinforce themselves and purchase more weapons instead of negotiating peace. You said the situation was "aggravated by the enthronement...