In the meantime the only regime was repose of body and mind, an all-pervading calm, the avoidance of all exciting topics.
Mao and his followers had once been such rebellious youths, but by the 1960's they were mostly old men and a new youth had appeared, a generation of revolutionaries for whom the "old regime" was dim history, not reality.
In the meantime the only regime was repose of body and mind, an all-pervading calm, the avoidance of all exciting topics.