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...universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words of the week--all the cheerful paraphernalia that makes the modern American classroom seem like a Maoist re-education camp run by Barney the dinosaur...
Excelling at marksmanship, she was discovered on the school rifle range by no less a talent scout than Jiang Qing, Mao's wife, and went into movies, starring in all her roles. For Little Flower (1980), playing a revolutionary's daughter in pre-Maoist China, she won the Hundred Flowers Award. Instead of staying in China, she moved to New York City as an actress-model. "I was clueless when I arrived," she recalls. "The cultural shock--even the toothpaste tasted different! My desire to go to the States was so vague, yet so strong. It's like going...
...same time lifting themselves out of Third World status. Their discipline and pragmatism will raise the standard of living for all Chinese; liberty as we know it will come later, and it can wait. Eventually the Chinese will throw off the old trappings of Stalinist and Maoist philosophy and adopt a culture that balances the privileges of liberty with the responsibilities thereof. Surely the next hundred years will be called "the Chinese Century." MARC NEVILLE Harrisburg...
...criminality of their actions, was vastly more complex, with the protesters supporting a wide variety, even contradictory, programs. Moreover, it was not the mere endorsement of the American government as is commonly believed. But as a challenge to the old men who have used that arteriosclerotic muddle known as "Maoist theory" to make China into their Belgian Congo, it blazes around the world...
...life spoke not only of the genocidal dangers of armed ideology, but also of the cynical marriages of political convenience that characterize a region deeply scarred by the Cold War. The peasant boy's government-funded education in Paris turned him into a Maoist whose first act in power was to launch a bloody purge of all educated Cambodians...