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Khrushchev's Image inside China
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2009
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In the November 9, 1962, issue of the People's Daily, a cartoon shows President Kennedy seated at a restaurant table waving a broken missile on the end of a fork and giving his order to a bald, obsequious waiter who stands with pad and pencil in hand. The caption: “His Appetite Grows With The Eating.” Kennedy says “I'll have fried Il-28 bombers next and sugar machete for the sweet course.” The waiter can hardly be mistaken for anybody but Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.
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1 The communiqué of the Tenth Plenary Session of the Eighth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released on September 28, 1962, and reprinted in Peking Review of that date, Vol. 5, No. 39, refers to “modern revisionists” who “gloated over the temporary difficulties encountered by the Chinese People” and explains that “the imperialists abroad and their running dogs in China completely miscalculated … our people have resolutely smashed and will continue to smash every one of their scheming activities be it intrusion, provocation or aggression or subversion within our state or our Party.” The dismissal of Huang K'o-ch'eng and T'an Cheng from the Secretariat of the Central Committee has been interpreted as a strengthening of the Party position. Huang, an associate of P'eng Teh-huai lost his post as Chief of the Army General Staff in 1959 and also his position as Deputy Minister of Defence. T'an is Chief of the General Political Department and a Deputy Minister of Defence.
2 Union Research Service, Vol. 29, No. 5, 10 16, 1962.Google Scholar
3 Ibid. p. 70.
4 Ibid. p. 71. T'ao's emphasis on Stalin taking the proletarian internationalist stand is particularly interesting since the Chinese distinction between a Marxist-Leninist and a modern revisionist is the willingness to struggle against imperialism. “But modern revisionists,” says the People's Daily (11 15, 1962)Google Scholar, “submit to imperialist pressure, are afraid of U.S. imperialism and of the revolutionary struggles of the peoples, oppose these struggles to the struggle in defence of world peace and have degraded into the voluntary propagandists, political agents and stooges of imperialism.”
5 Interview by H. B. Huang of Time-Life China Southeast Asia Bureau with Professor Chen Nai-chao, formerly of the Sun Yat-sen University.
6 In Chinese the common expression is “K lao kuang t'ou,” or “Chiang lao kuang t'ou.”
7 Hongkong Tiger Standard feature “Khrushchev—Through Peking's Eyes,” by Chow, Jack, 11 13, 1962.Google Scholar
8 Interview and translation by H. B. Huang. In Chinese the literal meaning is “Khrushchev is a ghost who is afraid to die.”
9 Union Research Service, Vol. 29, No. 20, 12 7, 1962, p. 317.Google Scholar
10 Author's information.
11 Interview by H. B. Huang, with Hsu Yung, a schoolteacher refugee from Canton who arrived in Hong Kong last summer.
12 See Halpern, A. M.'s “Between Plenums: A Second Look at the 1962 National People's Congress in China,” Asian Survey, 11 1962, Vol. II, No. 9Google Scholar, for an analysis of recent Chinese Communist efforts to combat “rightist deviations.”