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Liang Shan stands as a salient example of the gap between the Chinese and the American man Like a Maoist Job, he suffers repeated indignities and hardships without losing faith. He is not a Western man with democratic ideals on whom communism has been forced Rather, he has a selfless devotion to the state personified by Mao. In this unusually impartial view of life in modern China, Liang Heng successfully expresses the strength of the communist faith as it conflicts with filial loyalty, romance love and urge for a better like. Unlike foreign visitors or disillusioned exiles, Liang Heng...
...book's lack of direct criticism of the society which allowed such cruelty may be as much a product of Liang's caution after his past troubles as of his belief in communist society. Even his father, always a devoted Maoist, tells him at one point to "never give your opinion on anything...even if you're asked directly. "Liang's book may present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit...
...After Mao Tse-tung's death in late 1976, Geng, 73, supported then Party Chairman Hua Guofeng, who was later purged, in arresting the so-called Gang of Four. His appointment as Defense Minister early last year was seen at the time as a compromise choice between the Maoist generals and Deng's supporters in the military. The new Defense Minister is Zhang Aiping, 72, a general who has headed the Scientific and Technological Commission for National Defense. One of Deng's most trusted men in the military establishment, he is an ardent advocate of modernizing...
...rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
...first antiwar groups he mentions are the "Maoist Progressive Labor Party," the "Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party," and the "Moscow-oriented Communist Party," three groups about as influential in the struggle as "past winners, Pillsbury Bake-Off" and the Kiwanis Club. "All the Communist groups worked on increasingly close terms with the non-Communist radicals who made up the ever-swelling constituency of what had only recently become known as the New Left or the Movement," he says...