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...exchange for all they took from China, the English gave the Chinese people opium. British ships would anchor off Kowloon or slip up the forbidden coast and run the drug ashore with small launches. In the late 1830s, the famous Commissioner Lin Tse-hsu launched an effective campaign to end this illegal trade. A death penalty for opium dealing was extended to foreigners and Lin sent an urgent plea to England...
...Imperial China and its Confucian tradition. A powerful new faction emerged, led by Sun Yat-sen, and in October 1911, it brought revolution to the Chinese. The overthrow of the imperial power came with surprisingly little bloodshed--the enemies were still from without. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, two aids of Sun, worked with their leader for unity in the Middle Kingdom. The process was completed by Mao in 1949 with the October 1 founding of The People's Republic...
...high point of the trip was a 2-hr. 45-min. meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. No details of their talks were released, but afterward the Secretary of State expressed his delight that the Chinese had chosen to describe the meeting as "friendly...
...disturbed by trucks roaring out into the suburbs with gongs clanging and crimson banners flying. The trucks are full of high-school graduates who are being sent out for two years' manual work in the countryside "to learn from the peasants," in accordance with a Mao Tse-tung instruction first given in 1968 during the Cultural Revolution...
Presumed Dead. Liu Shao-chi, 75, Communist China's dour chief of state for a decade until becoming the most prominent purge victim of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution of 1966-69; of cancer; in Peking. Born in Mao's native province of Hunan, Liu was a member of the Communist Party's Central Committee by 1927 and in 1943 rose to Secretary-General, the No. 2 post in the regime. First denounced in 1966 as a pro-Soviet "revisionist" who favored work incentives, Liu was completely out of power three years later...