In 1972 President Richard Nixon raised his glass in the Great Hall of the People and quoted from the popular poetry of Mao Tse-tung. " 'So many deeds cry out to be done, and always urgently,' " intoned Nixon. " 'Seize the day, seize the hour.' "
Inspiring lines, but were they really Mao's? Maybe, maybe not, suggests China's official English-language weekly Beijing Review, which reported last week that a number of poems once attributed to the Chairman were probably the work of Chen Mingyuan, then a 29-year-old university student.
Chen, now a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became...
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