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...personality types and power quotients do not necessarily explain Chinese politics or society, or the way a system works in any country, for that matter. That much is agreed upon by Harvard's most prominent and widely-quoted Sinologists--John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History, Roy M. Hofheinz Jr. '67, professor of Government, and Ross Terrill, assistant professor of Government. In a typical response to a query about the post-Mao direction of Chinese leadership, Fairbank says, "It's just nonsense to try to guess at history from a great...
...Indeed, Schwartz and Terrill agree that Mao carefully managed the "uninterrupted" revolution after the Cultural Revolution produced a second serious threat to his position. This suggests a principal question left in the wake of Mao's death: If, as Schwartz says, the revolution can be turned off by Mao, its creator, then what will happen to the revolution...
...Schwartz hews to a sharply different analysis of Mao's role. In his opinion, Mao the man has steadily merged with Maoist ideology, especially in the past few years. Even if he was ill and relatively inactive towards the end of his life, Schwartz says Mao's presence was influential. "I don't think he was ever a leader interested in the details or mechanics of government. Yet all he had to do was say something and it would come down with a crash, he says. Schwartz foresees some hardship in establishing the Chinese Communist Party as an institutional entity...
Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, Williams Professor of History and Political Science and one of the tenured faculty in Chinese Government, said yesterday, "We were for him, but we couldn't prevail against the whole department. The whole thing doesn't reflect on his merits...
...search for Carter advisors, Schwartz says, culminated in "tapping the newer people--identifying the women and the young thinkers and bringing them...