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...after having been purged "forever" during the Cultural Revolution of 1966-69). That prospect now seems impossible, even though Teng was allowed to retain his party membership ("if he behaves," according to the Politburo announcement). The residual honor was probably intended to mollify his remaining supporters. Explains Tufts University Sinologist Donald Klein: "That way, he can still be called 'comrade,' rather than just 'mister'-no small matter in China...
...accused the Chinese of meddling in U.S. domestic politics. "Mao doesn't know what New Hampshire means, much less where it is," said a U.S. Government Sinologist. Most China watchers agree that Mao wants to reaffirm, as part of his political will and testament, the Shanghai communique of 1972 that promised "normalization" of relations between the U.S. and China. By inviting Nixon, Mao is using him to underscore Chinese impatience with the slow progress toward full diplomatic recognition of Peking and with the Ford Administration's emphasis on U.S.-Soviet detente...
During a discussion last November with a delegation of U.S. university presidents, notes Boston University Sinologist Merle Goldman, "He seemed to be totally in control, saying anything he wanted." He described himself as a product of "the university of life, and that university has no date of graduation." Then Teng startled his guests by adding: "The day I meet God is when I will graduate, but who knows what grades I will get from God?" Later, the delegation's Chinese translator pointedly emphasized that "Mr. Teng might see God, but the rest of us are going to see Marx...
ASWARM of 161 potential China pundits arrived at Kirkland House on July 4 to begin ten days of apprenticeship with Harvard's most celebrated Sinologist, John K. Fairbank, and his wife, Wilma, at the Alumni College...
...past, those have been assets. Chou has been on the Politburo for 42 years, longer (by three years) than Mao; this durability reflects his skill at avoiding passionate commitments to policies or dogma. In that sense, Chou is utterly unlike Mao. "Chou is a conformist," says Rand Corp. Sinologist Thomas Robinson. "He often swims with the tide. Mao wants to cause-and, if necessary, reverse-the tide...