Mao Tse-tung and his associates in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) appear to have a penchant for reducing an important and complex policy or strategy to a relatively simple set of rules that their followers can easily understand and implement without undue deviation. In the military field, for example, Mao laid down, at a very early stage of his revolutionary career, the now well-known rules governing guerrilla warfare which read in part:… The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.To extend stable base areas, employ the policy of advancing in waves; pursued by a powerful enemy, employ the policy of circling around.Arouse the largest numbers of the masses in the shortest possible time and by the best possible methods.
Student governments in Chinese higher education: reflection on college students’ and student cadres’ political trust