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...that they are "poor and blank." This may seem a bad thing, but in reality it is a good thing ... On a blank sheet of paper free from any mark, the freshest and most beautiful characters can be written, the freshest and most beautiful pictures can be painted. - Mao Tse-tung...
Fairbank argues that China has not freed itself from this Confucian past, despite Mao Tse-tung's revolution. Like the China of old, the People's Republic is still "massive, profoundly collectivist, and professedly anti-individualist." Important habits of the Confucian tradition have been modified: rule by an imperial figure still persists, for example, and so does adherence to ideological orthodoxy, whether Confucian or Communist. Ironically, the methods used to overthrow the old system are reminiscent of past methods. The Red Guards of the Cultural Revolution had their prototypes in the antiforeign Boxers of the 19th century...
...when Mao Tse Tung came to power in 1949, he renewed the interest in traditional Chinese medicine. His popular maxim "Heal the wounded, rescue the dying, practice revolutionary humanitarianism" applied literally to acupuncture and traditional medicine as well as figuratively to Chinese society...
...overpopulation is a myth invented by the rich to exploit and subjugate the poor. Soviet Deputy Minister of Health Lev Volodarsky contended that high population-growth rates have "nothing to do with the real reason for backwardness and only serve to distract attention from needed social reforms." Huang Shu-tse, Deputy Minister of Health for China, which has the world's greatest population (800 million), declared that development lags were caused by exploitation by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and "the large population of the Third World is an important condition for the fight against imperialism." Even India...
...within the Peking leadership that have been trying to turn the anti-Confucius ideological campaign into a broad attack on party moderates. The enhanced authority of the regular party apparatus appears to have tipped the power balance in favor of the moderates. Prominent leftists like Chiang Ching, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's wife, and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan have faded from public view. At the same time, the moderate party leadership that emerged after the Tenth Party Congress a year ago has endured intact. Chou Enlai, whose relative inactivity over the summer led to rumors that...