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...shade of red than the standard communist cadre. The Chinese character for his name means vermilion, the color used on the gates of wealthy people's mansions in old China. Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928. "The Zhu family was very rich," says Zhu Yunzhong, 66, a retired doctor and Zhu Rongji's cousin. "That caused many of them problems after the revolution--even myself...
...Yunzhong lives in Ansha township, 19 miles from the city of Changsha. Ten minutes' walk up the valley from his two-room house he pointed out where the Zhu clan's palace once stood. It had "dozens of rooms" and a covered walkway leading over the hill to the family temple. "We used to say that whichever path you took from here to Changsha, you had to pass over Zhu land," says Yunzhong. The palace was destroyed in an antilandlord campaign in the 1950s, but Zhu's privileged background was not forgotten by Mao's regime...
...delicate and perhaps impossible task is to transform China's economy without fomenting social upheaval--a phenomenon with which he has had some experience. Born into poverty in the city of Changsha, capital of Hunan province and home town of Mao Zedong, Zhu obtained an engineering degree from elite Qinghua University in Beijing. Considered an up-and-coming cadre, he was purged as a "rightist" in 1957 for criticizing government policy, then purged again in 1965, at the start of the Cultural Revolution. Rehabilitated in 1979, he worked his way up fast, and in 1988 was named mayor of Shanghai...
April 23-May 4: Unrest spreads to other major cities, including. Xian, Changsha and Shanghai...
...More than 100,000 protesters in Tiananmen Square celebrate the anniversary of the May 4 movement by increasing their demands for reform. More than 20,000 rally in Shanghai to support Beijing protests. Demonstrations are also reported in Nanjing and Changsha...