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...alarmingly dependent on Soviet military help. Yet the region is not sufficiently industrialized to support a classic, Russian-style proletarian uprising, and the illiterate, fatalistic fellahin of the villages are too conservative, too steeped in the concepts of familial loyalty and the Islamic faith to become conscripts in a Maoist peasant revolt...
...Nixon invitation, Premier Chou Enlai. The latest example came during the 31-day visit to China by a group of 15 graduate students from the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars-all Americans, and all characteristic of the growing body of U.S. scholars who are strongly sympathetic to the Maoist experiment in China (see EDUCATION). Chou was at his best, showing genuine private warmth toward the students, but public firmness bordering on hostility to their government. For the benefit of the world at large, Chou turned on the chill. He reeled off China's basic positions: that its sovereignty over...
...describes as an effort to remake completely "the thoughts and sentiments of a people who have already been molded by the oldest civilization on earth." Mao wanted to do nothing less than transform the traditional Chinese peasant-passive, materialistic, instinctively dependent on a ruling elite -into a new Maoist Man. He would be self-reliant but unswervingly loyal to the state, a faithful fanatic who would "neither seek fame or gain nor fear hardship or death, but toil body and soul for the people." Only such a man, the Chairman believes, can prevent the Chinese revolution from sliding into Soviet...
Speaking Bitterness. The condition of the party aside. Westerners who have been admitted to China since Peking launched its venture in Ping Pong diplomacy report that in other respects, Mao has made remarkable strides toward his goal. Their dispatches tell of orderly cities where threadbare but smiling millions echo Maoist slogans, of shopkeepers who leave their goods out all night without fear of their being stolen, of a military establishment whose $150-a-month generals uncomplainingly accepted a sizable pay cut in 1969. Maoist thought, some of the travelers reported, has done away with corruption, enabled the deaf to regain...
...thus has not succeeded in changing human (or Chinese) nature, if Maoist Man remains a vision, he has nevertheless established an amazing degree of at least surface unanimity and loyalty. The ordinary citizen can hardly do less than try to get along with the state, which in a totalitarian system like China's is the source of all rewards -and all punishment. After all, says one 30-year-old party-educated intellectual who recently fled to Hong Kong, the Chinese peasantry has always been like "the grass on the hilltop"-ready to blow with the prevailing political winds...