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50th anniversary live-tweeting China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
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1/12/73 The People's Daily praises the "revolution" of open-book exams which enthuse students, unlike the "bourgeois" obsession with memorising.
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23/9/73 The People's Daily reports on Sichuan's 20-year old slaughterhouse prodigy who overcame gender stereotypes by skinning a pig in four minutes.
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24/7/72 Mao says that the State should deliver free contraceptives to people's homes because many are too embarrassed to go out and buy them.
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11/4/72 Yao Wenyuan accidentally drags the arm of his big jacket over a pastry and sits silently throughout the meeting, eating cream off his sleeve.
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12/11/73 Zhou Enlai jokes that German sentences can run to several pages, then explains that he was exaggerating the length of German sentences.
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12/9/73 Mao says that Nixon talks too much and that Napoleon should have avoided decisive battles with the Royal Navy to preserve his forces.
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19/6/74 Jiang Qing says that "women may have daddies. Do you comrades know what a daddy is?" and explains the distinction between daddy and husband.
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12/12/73 "I like you as a person", Mao tells Deng Xiaoping. He says that they have some contradictions, but no-one's perfect and they mostly agree.
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29/12/72 Zhou Enlai shares a complex analogy from Mao about which countries are bread and which are meat (of varying succulence) in a world sandwich.
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24/2/72 Li Xiannian and Ji Pengfei take the Nixons to visit the Great Wall. Nixon says that "you would have to conclude that this is a great wall".
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17/2/73 As the meeting winds down, Mao tells Kissinger that if he wants the minutes made public, he'll get the stuff they said about women removed.
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*/6/66 Lin Biao orders a PLA Political Commissar to set up a Shanghai "search committee" and find his son, Lin Liguo, a girlfriend.
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15/3/71 Mao approves the PRC Table Tennis Team to go to Japan and advises "be prepared to be assassinated. Of course, it is better not to be killed".
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7/7/74 A People's Daily article "exposes the lies of child prodigies" such as a 7-year-old Tang Dynasty calligrapher ("fabricated nonsense").
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10/1/74 Commune leaders in Shaanxi let ex-Vice Premier Xi Zhongxun's rusticated son Xi Jinping join the Party on his 10th attempt, and give him a job.
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25/5/74 Asking Edward Heath about Watergate, Mao repeatedly expresses bafflement at how Nixon has handled it and wonders if it's survivable.
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17/2/73 Criticising French communists for cosying up to the USSR, Mao adds that he doesn't like the American communists either - but likes Kissinger.
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6/7/74 The People's Daily complains that comic strips are often "reactionary, absurd and pornographic" and calls for positive proletarian content.
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22/7/72 The People's Daily celebrates the application of Mao Zedong Thought to the field of beekeeping, unlocking earlier egg-laying and more honey.
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22/7/74 The People's Daily attacks the idea of "the mandate of heaven" and says that it wasn't destiny that ended the "evil old society" but action.
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17/2/73 Mao says that China lacks everything except women, and offers to send 10 000 to the USA: "they will create disasters" but it will help China.
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19/6/74 At a thousand-strong meeting on Legalism, Jiang Qing announces 17/6/74's nuclear test but says that workers' criticism is far more powerful.
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23/10/72 The People's Daily tells readers to have "fewer meetings and shorter meetings" and criticises meetings with no preparation or clear purpose.
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15/2/73 When Kissinger brings up Zhou Enlai calling him the only man who can talk for 30 minutes while saying nothing, Zhou corrects him: he said 90.
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27/1/74 Jiang Qing quizzes top political officer Tian Weixin about the Communist Manifesto. When he fails, she rips the PLA insignia off his uniform.
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17/9/73 Academics writing in Beijing Daily praise "The Progressive Role of Qin Shihuang in History" for liquidating Confucian scholars and texts.
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3/8/72 Deng Xiaoping accepts that, being "completely discredited", he may never be able to do an important job again - but could do technical work.
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20/4/73 Mao says that events have made him a "right-opportunist" (dealing with Nixon) and may not live long enough to restore his "left" reputation.
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12/11/73 Mao asks why Americans are obsessed with the "meagre" Watergate scandal. Kissinger says that he isn't embroiled in it so is unaffected.
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26/12/73 Mao is 80 today. There are no grand public (or grand private) celebrations. Albania releases a commemorative stamp to mark the day.
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22/6/72 Kissinger warns Zhou Enlai that visiting US Congress member Gerald Ford is unintelligent, very right wing and is set against the PRC.
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3/1/72 Haig tells Zhou Enlai that the presentational aspects of Nixon's visit are critical because "most American journalists are shallow idiots".
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30/12/73 After dark, 631 professors are called to a conference. On arrival, they learn that they are really here to do an "exam without preparation".
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18/1/74 In Shaanxi, inspired by a 8/1/74 People's Daily article, rookie cadre Xi Jinping suggests visiting Sichuan to learn how they produce biogas.
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17/11/73 It is easy to make leftist errors when struggling against the USA, says Mao, but it is also easy to make rightist errors when cooperating.
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21/12/73 Mao warmly receives dozens of veteran military leaders. He tells Xu Xiangqian "you are a good guy" and Nie Rongzhen "you are a good guy".
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21/2/72 Nixon leaves and Mao changes straight back into his dressing gown. He tells his doctor that Nixon is reliable, unlike western left wingers.
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17/2/73 When Kissinger avoids Mao's offer of 10 000 women, he ups it to 10 million - "they would want to go!". Zhou Enlai suggests asking them first.
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27/9/73 The People's Daily praises Qin Shihuang killing Confucian scholars. Beijing Daily calls it "Revolutionary Dictatorship over Reactionaries".
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10/2/74 The People's Daily reports that they showed Antonioni's "anti-Communist" film Chung Kuo to some children and it made them "very angry".
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14/4/71 Glenn Cowan asks Zhou Enlai his view on hippies. Zhou says that they manifest young people's frustrations but not necessarily mature thought.
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13/8/71 The People's Daily says that customers must "respect the labour" of shop staff. To abuse them over bad service is not proletarian behaviour.
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29/10/71 The People's Daily criticises the "statistics are useless" theory - a reaction against the revisionist "statistics are omnipotent" theory.
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29/12/73 This has been a good year for Chinese palaeontology, with descriptions of giant hadrosaurid Shantungosaurus and stegosaurid Wuerhosaurus.
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17/7/74 Mao tells Jiang Qing that people are dissatisfied with her but dare not say it to her face. He tells her to change, but predicts she won't.
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22/2/74 Mao, accompanied by Zhou Enlai and Wang Hongwen, receives Zambian President Kaunda and explains a theory that there are "Three Worlds".
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10/12/70 A long People's Daily article tells women that, aside from work, domestic chores and being a "good wife", they must study dialectics.
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16/8/71 The Nanjing Revolutionary Committee convenes a meeting to start reviewing the personnel files of potential girlfriends for Lin Liguo.
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13/11/73 Zhou Enlai says that he could get Red Guards to guard the liaison office in America. He says that Nixon could send hippies to "visit" them.
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10/9/71 British politician Tony Benn visits Guangzhou. Over dinner with city official Chen Yu, Benn suggests strategies for taking over Taiwan.
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10/7/71 Kissinger says that without "the benefits of the Cultural Revolution" the US government is saddled with a big, sclerotic, leaky bureaucracy.
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10/4/74 If one day China bullies or interferes in other countries, Deng Xiaoping calls on them to oppose China and expose its "social-imperialism".
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27/9/72 Mao tells Tanaka that, although people says US Democrats are more enlightened than Republicans, he isn't interested and doesn't admire them.
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15/3/71 Mao complains that many officials don't even know what materialism or idealism are, which is why fake Marxists can prosper inside the CCP.
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18/9/71 The Lin Biao circular presents Lin Biao as opposing Mao throughout the 1930s and 40s. It also criticises him for getting shot in 1938.
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30/7/73 The People's Daily encourages young people to marry later, even if family pressure them - put revolution and socialist construction first!
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21/2/72 Nixon gives a toast, calling for both parties to start a "Long March" by different routes to a shared goal and quotes Mao on seizing the day.
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10/4/74 Deng Xiaoping tells the UN that there is "great disorder under heaven" resulting in a worldwide realignment: the "socialist camp" is no more.
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26/10/73 The People's Daily attacks the US-Soviet call for a Middle East ceasefire as naked self-interest, undermining the "just war" against Israel.
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17/2/73 Discussing China's language(s), Mao says that the USSR would do him a favour by bombing all the over-30s who are too old to learn Mandarin.
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10/2/74 Jiang Qing criticises cadres for accepting a US firm's gift of some glass snails, which insinuate that China is developing at a snail's pace.
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17/2/73 In the evening, Mao receives Kissinger with Zhou Enlai. Mao needs help standing and immediately tells Kissinger that he's going to die soon.
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12/6/74 Jiang Qing tells a Peking and Qinghua University radical writers' group that the struggle between Confucianism and Legalism is still going on
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2/12/71 Kim Il-sung reassures Workers' Party cadres about China engaging with Nixon by drawing a comparison to the Soviet Union's pact with Hitler.
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17/4/74 Mao writes a letter to Jiang Qing telling her to stop moaning and denying her request to step back from politics. He later re-writes it.
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17/2/73 Mao says that women don't know how to fight. He scoffs when Tang Wensheng points out that there are women's detachments - "only on stage".
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17/7/74 Mao warns the "Shanghai gang" that they shouldn't be trying to run a "hat factory" (putting hats of different political labels on everyone).
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10/8/71 The article explains how a doctor cured a melancholic patient by living on the ward with her, sharing her bed, and reading her Mao quotes.
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14/9/73 Zhou Enlai telegrams Allende's widow with condolences, calls him a martyr and pays tribute to his efforts for Chilean national sovereignty.
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22/2/72 Zhou Enlai says that Mao regards "down with US Imperialism" as an "empty cannon" and does not imply a conflict between PRC and US interests.
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4/7/73 According to Mao, the Foreign Ministry keeps producing these "shitty documents", which includes transcripts of Zhou Enlai's speeches.
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26/12/72 It's Mao's 79th birthday. The Soviet Presidium orders nine "Chinese-sounding" Siberian cities, taken by Russia in 1860, to adopt new names.
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12/12/73 Mao says that Deng Xiaoping should join the Central Military Commission and, remembering that he's not on the Politburo either, that too.
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29/6/73 Zhang Tiesheng starts writing to appeal his exam results but nods off. He wakes up late for his next exam and has sneak in through a window.
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15/1/74 Two Russian men in face masks, disguised as Beijing workers, walk from the car towards Li Hongshu. One greets Li warmly and hands him a bag.
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6/2/73 In Guangzhou, the Hunan men's football team play a friendly against a Korean People's Army team. Hooligan spectators disrupt the match.
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21/3/69 Alexei Kosygin attempts to speak to PRC leaders by telephone, but the switchboard operator in Beijing refuses to connect a "revisionist".
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10/4/74 Deng Xiaoping says that the USSR is no less colonialist than the USA: it's a "merchant of death" trading substandard weaponry for resources.
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3/11/73 After a Beijing crowd's unpleasantness in a China-North Korea women's basketball series, Zhou Enlai calls for a rematch to make amends.
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6/9/71 Nanjing authorities' quest to find a suitable girlfriend for Lin Liguo is called off. Lin is engaged to 20-year old Army musician Zhang Ning.
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16/2/74 Zhou Enlai rules that there can be Lin Biao-Confucius activities near the Korean border but that they must be sensitive of foreign relations.
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21/2/74 A Foreign Ministry inquiry concludes that the glass snails Jiang Qing objected to were gifted without malice by an American electronics firm.
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15/12/73 Mao tells the commanders that Deng Xiaoping is their new Chief of Staff and calls him a needle wrapped in cotton: outwardly soft but steely.
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1/5/74 Half a million people celebrate May Day in Beijing. Tiananmen Square is festooned in red with portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
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21/2/72 Mao and Nixon meet. Mao asks if Kissinger is a doctor of philosophy. Nixon says that "he is a doctor of brains". Photographers take pictures.
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4/4/74 Mao tells the leaders that criticising Lin Biao is straightforward but Confucius is harder, and adding nepotism into the mix is harder-still.
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1/1/74 The editorial says that criticising Confucius is an important part of criticising Lin Biao (who, it reminds readers, was an ultra-rightist).
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19/5/71 Zhou Enlai receives the visiting US scientists. He says that the USA should try China's system of no debt, no income tax and no foreign wars.
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18/11/70 The People's Daily carries article from a soldier in Lanzhou explaining how to use dialectical materialism to become a safer driver.
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24/6/74 Mao reads Jiang Qing's letter about learning from Tianjin's masses. He tells there to stay there longer because she has a lot to learn.
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25/5/74 Mao receives Edward Heath and tells him "I am sick". Zhou Enlai says "I am sick too". Wang Hongwen, Deng Xiaoping and Wang Hairong join them.
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12/11/73 Kissinger says that Colonel Gaddafi is "not the most stable intellect". Mao says that he can't understand Gaddafi or Salem Rubaya Ali.
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4/12/71 The People's Daily says that learning is a "lifelong combat mission" and encourages group discussion to raise theoretical understanding.
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4/1/74 In an article attacking him as a reactionary, the People's Daily emphasises that Confucius was, at one point, the (acting) Prime Minister.
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3/9/71 Complaining that there are statues and portraits of him everywhere, Mao says that it is time to "cool down" the personality propaganda.
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5/8/73 Mao receives Jiang Qing and talks about the history of Legalism versus Confucianism, and reads her some poetry defending Emperor Qin Shihuang.
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10/9/71 Mao says that people are still "hanging my image everywhere" and that the English term "long live" is not appropriate for older people.
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6/5/71 The People's Daily criticises so-called "politically harmless" art such as "counter-revolutionary landscape paintings of flowers and birds".
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15/2/73 Kissinger says that comic Bob Hope wants to perform here but given the chance to apply he addressed "the Republic of China" and was denied.
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17/6/74 On Jiang Qing's urging, Beijing Daily writes about Empress Lü and how she ruled well after her husband's death, upholding his Legalist line.
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