ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the larger current political scene in China at the time of the visit have to be those glimpsed, reflected, or refracted in the conversations. Mao Tse-tung's leadership of the Chinese Communist Party was kindled in the disaster that Stalin so largely made in 1927 because he, Stalin, held what was essentially a national-Communist view of revolutionary struggles in other countries. Some poster-writers and publishers of illegal journals were arrested the most famous among them the youthful Wei Ching-sheng, of whose case more later and the short-lived 'Democracy Wall' was blanked out. Wei Ching-sheng who became the best known of some remarkable young people who entered the world of politics as Red Guards in their 'teens in 1966 and emerged from that experience as boldly challenging critics of the lack of humanism and democracy in the Communist regime. The Cultural Revolution was not in vain because it wakened the people and we can now judge Chairman Mao.
