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...When Mao Zedong's Communist revolution completed its sweep of the mainland in 1949, the oft-asked question in Washington was who had "lost" China. Former American spy, diplomat and straight shooter James Lilley argues in his sweeping memoir China Hands that this historical puzzler is a red herring: America never had China, and the very idea is counterproductive. To influence China, America first has to respect that the vast land has its own interests and ways. Lilley knows. He was born in Qingdao, the son of an American oil executive, and China has been the center of his life...
Literature chronicling the cultural Revolution is rife with memoirs written by China's best and brightest-the doctors, artists and intellectuals who were sent to the countryside to toil miserably as field hands during Mao Zedong's program to "reeducate" the intelligentsia. Not all who were targets of class warfare were destroyed by it, however. Mao's Last Dancer, the latest biography set in the Cultural Revolution, tells the story of a peasant boy from northern China who was propelled to international stardom by Mao's social engineering...
...compromise, as News Corp. officials know. In 1993, the company removed the BBC from its Chinese-language Star satellite network-which at the time had government permission to be shown in hotels and foreign compounds-after the British news service irritated Beijing with a series critical of Chairman Mao Zedong. But with 340 million TV households, China is a plummy market awaiting those who gain the government's favor. Last year, advertising reached $2.7 billion, up 11% over the year before. And Beijing is showing signs of loosening up. Earlier this year it began allowing foreign companies to buy into...
...What aspects of humanity get shoved aside in the pursuit of empire? History is important because it shows that society cannot be reduced to those terms; history is not—as Ferguson suggested—reducible to a “balance sheet.” Mao Zedong has been reevaluated as 70 percent good and 30 percent bad; the Chinese man on the street will tell you that he was “still a great person.” We may laugh at this naiveté, but this is not much different from whitewashing...
...Communist forces led by Mao Zedong defeat Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, driving him and more than a million followers to Taiwan. Chiang sets up a government-in-exile and vows to "recover the mainland...