THE REVIEW

Wednesday, September 26, 1984

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“The Chinese people have at last stood up”... . Chairman Mao has
delivered a great. many memorable.one liners, but with these words he
summed up the agony and the thrills, the sorrows and the joys, the '
despair and the hopes.of more than 20 interminable years of struggle. China continues to modernize. Above, newly electrified railway in Central China (Hubei Province). Xinhua New Agency Photo
Thirty five years. ago next Monday (Oct. 1,.1949), he stood at the :
gates of the palaces of the last. emperors of China in Beijing and True enough, the struggle goes. on, but in the area of international A whole slecade. from 1966-1976, was virtually. wasted, China was
. proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. relations alone, the transformation has been astounding. The sight of — . convulsed by the tumultuous and agonizing events of the so-called
Thelast years of Imperial China were hardly glorious. . . ignominy a strong, united nation whose leaders arc listened to and who play very “Cultural Revolution’ and-the ascendancy of the ‘Gang of Four’’
marked the last century or more of the Qing Dynasty (1644- 1911 - also significant roles on the world stage is not only enormously gratifying and their followers who exploited the last years of Chairman Mao’s
called the Manchu Dynasty). to the Chinese people but represents a spectacular reversal of form. ‘life to literally tear. apart his beloved China that he had led out of its
A succession of foreign tormentors had heaped humiliation and From a_ nation beset by weakness, corruption, ‘internal strife — desolution only a short 17 years ago. .
‘degradation upon the Middle Kingdom. The Russians, the British, the scorned. and exploited by the world to.a major world power is a- These tragic 10 years exacted a heavy ‘toll — inspired by such heady. :
French, the Germans, the Japanese, the Italians — all had their turn at profound accomplishment by any measure. China’s relationships with slogans as-‘*Destroy the Four Olds!’’ (culture, ideas, habits and .
the trough in a series of disastrous. (for China) wars, followed by neighbors — given the bitter legacy of colonial incursions into the customs); unbridled revolutionary zeal inflicted horrendous damage
humiliating and (for prem): profitable unequal treaties and incursions nation on all sides shows significant maturity and self-confidence. on. priceless antiquities in the form of statues, temples, relics,
into China. = Border problems have been. amicably and quickly resolved with -manuscripts, ;
Now, three and a half decades later, Chairman Mao lies ina crystal such weaker neighbours as. Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma, Laos ‘As ghastly as this rampage was, it does not compare with the human
casket within sight of the self-same gate to the Imperial Palace while’ and even the staunch Soviet satellite — Mongolia. Even in Vietnam, toll. Three quarters of a million people (730,000) were hounded and | ;
his < successors cand his. people, one billion of them, celebrate .a where the. present regime inisists on ‘Soviet-supported mischief framed: and: persecuted......at least 35,000 of these were “persecuted
momentous event. . . the Liberation of China. nei ‘making, the border per se was not an issue. until the Hanoi Regime to death.’’ (Data published as a result of the trial of ‘Gang of Four’’).
While an indepth assessment of the Mao will have to wait, he is initiated a series of frontier incidents plus a virulent internal campaign Remember that these were, for the most part, intellectuals and:
obviously a giant in the fascinating, . complex and ANSDUNE Story of against the large, prosperous community of Vietnamese of Chinese leaders — many were valiant. old revolutionaries who deserved a
~-China’s long road to self respect.” origin in addition to stationing a huge army of occupation in: Kam- reward considerably better. than ignominy or-even death. ; :
. BaP puchea (Cambodia). Now in the eight years following these thoroughly tragic 10 years,
Y By Jay Rangel Now, constant violence marks the border. The point is that the the Chinese people can celebrate their achievements secure in the
[ peop LI border, originally inflicted on China. bys France: was previous knowledge. that respecting and understanding their TOOLS does not :
generally agreed to. | mean living in the past. :
“tis fr his people to eventually place. their leader in perspective, but The Soviet borders, particularly i in the far eastern fhe. of Siberia ; That. rational, realistic accminadation to ideology. can ‘and has.”
he led them through the seemingly hopeless early days ‘when Chiang. adjacent to the northeasterly regions of China. (once occupied’ by been made to ensure that their lot will truly saprONS Ttvis aherculean_
-Kaishek appeared ‘to. have done in”? not “only himself a his ‘“‘Manchukuo’”’ — the Japanese puppet state — are a very different... task, marching into the present.
“revolution as well. : matter as the current Czars are not inclined to disavow the i Imper) ialist Somehow. the pragmatism and ‘integrity of Den Xiaoping, the in-.
“He led the epic ‘‘Long. March” cag “the most arduous, longest and actions of their predecessors in the Kremlin. - novative genius of Premier Zhao Ziyang and his deputy Wan Li and »
5 significant, ‘military: march in history. It covered 6, 000: miles through mee compelling test of China’ s true. measure asa ac hbaur is the ‘the rapidly growing. ranks: of sharp young ‘leaders:seem to bode well pe
“some: ‘of the most rugged and forbidding terrain in Southwest. China, avid of Japan, who has every reason to fear.the reaction ofa for China. Despite many problems that seem ‘more like. challenges — SB
i, ending in: ithe: stadow? of: the wall, and meversed. the course of the venegful giant now awakened. The fact is, ‘relations between China . there isa feeling of real confidence on this. very. momentous day.- ES
revolution. oe and her: cultural: daughter. and. erstwhile tormentor. are ‘exceptionally “At is presumptuous. for me to assess. China’s. progress: — but there s®
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