ABSTRACT
The important working session of the Central Committee, held in October, 1966 and presided over by Mao Tse-tung, seems to have been the occasion for a first, fairly moderate self-criticism on the part of the president of the Republic. The red guards' campaign against him, in which he was called the Chinese Khrushchev, did not begin until November 23, in the usual form of wall posters. From the end of August until the end of November 1966, life in Peking was ruled by the compromise decided by the Eleventh Plenum of the Central Committee. The Cultural Revolution Group headed by Ch'en Po-ta seemed to be growing more and more active, but its enemies, Liu Shao-ch'i, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, and Po I-po, to mention only the most important, were rarely attacked, and when they were it was by means of allusions.
