ABSTRACT
On May 8, 1966, the Teng T'o affair began to be publicly known; its political significance was clearly apparent immediately, unlike the Wu Han affair, to which it gave renewed life. Chieh-fang-chun pao printed an editorial with a resounding title; "Open Fire at the Black Anti-Party and Anti-Socialist Line," signed by Kao Chu. Teng T'o, a native of Shantung, was a man of about fifty, and an important figure in the world of the press. After working on the New Century and several periodicals in Shanghai before 1937, he was a member of the team in charge of the Communist newspaper NewChina, published in Chungking with the permission of the Nationalist government during the Sino-Japanese War. P'eng Chen, born in Shansi at the beginning of the century, belonged to the first generation of Chinese Communists. Like Liu Shao-ch'i, he gained his experience in action among the workers in North China until the eve of the Sino-Japanese War.
