...Alexander C. Cook Mao’s most famous statement about postcolonial struggle came in response to the Congo Crisis of the 1960s, yet China’s understanding of and involvement in that conflict has been largely ignored. Based on briefly declassified archival sources and long-forgotten cultural works...

...Tani Barlow Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Editor s Introduction Alexander C. Cook s Chinese Uhuru: Maoism and the Congo Crisis dis- closes what he calls an emerging Maoist aesthetic of insurgency. Reading declassified political documents about Maoist guerilla activity...

... yanchu” (“War Drums Boom Praise for Wind and Thunder: Watching Congo’s Diyabuwa Song and Dance Ensemble Performance”) . Wudao (Dance) , no. 6 : 35 . Tuo Zhang . 1985 . “Xiao dao hui chuangzuo de lishi huigu” (“Historical Account of the Creation of Dagger Society”) . In Wudao wuju chuangzuo...

... in the “womb” of his own world-historical experience: Here in Virginia you are at the edge of a black world. The black belt of the Congo, the Nile, and the Ganges reaches up bywayof Guiana, Haiti, and Jamaica, like a red arrow, up into the heart...

... the globe (“The southwestward wind of the South Atlantic containing the moisture of the sea blows right into Africa and continues to trace the movement of the sand, as he imagines the storm rolling through the mountainous region in the Congo...

... which the diabolic within us is touched off could be anything, anywhere; the backdrop of the Belgian Congo at its darkest hour of colonialism is purely incidental, nonessential to the heart of the tale. In the face of this for- midable...

..., nuclear bombs, the military-industrial powerhouse of the United States of America? Each time a people made the attempt, from the Congo to Chile, the CIA’s technological sophistication cut short their efforts. The cultural symbol of the CIA was James...