03801. THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE STATE IN CHINESE THOUGHT. The relationship of individual and the state is reviewed from the Duke of Chou to Mao Tse-Tung. Chou, Confucius and Mencius are compared to the modern ideas of Communist China, as personified in the thoughts of Chairman Mao. The matrix of the people and the state is seen as a kind of social laboratory. 11 pages, 6 footnotes, 3 bibliographic sources.