Word: ching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been something of a mystery. For the past three months, Mao has been out of Peking and on the move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over by his Deputy Premiers...
...actress-wife Chiang Ching, 60, the party radicals are trying to keep ah've the intransigent revolutionary zeal of the Cultural Revolution. They see the pragmatic policies of Chou and the moderates threatening the purity of China's revolution. They are opposed, it seems, to Chou's tolerance of material incentives and his willingness to sacrifice ideological correctness for the sake of technical expertise. The most notable example is Chou's policy of detente with the West. Not only is accommodation with an imperialist country like the U.S. ideologically questionable, but trade with capitalist countries...
...sign of the strategy was the rise of a former Shanghai cotton-mill worker, Wang Hung-wen, 38, from virtual obscurity to vice chairman of the party. He now ranks below only Mao and Chou in the hierarchy. Since Wang is associated with such radical faction leaders as Chiang Ching and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan, his promotion indicated that the leftists could not simply be pushed aside as a political force...
Nonetheless, Chou En-lai and the moderates may have got the best of the bargain. Unlike Chiang Ching, who is a member of the Politburo but holds no office in the government, Wang Hung-wen has no independent power base. Some experts believe that his elevation was a token; the leftists got represen tation at the apex of the party but little increase in real power...
...against Confucius and Lin Piao, which, according to People's Daily was "personally launched" by Mao Tse-tung, did more than just lower the status of the army. Although apparently intended by Mao to combat ideological backsliding, the campaign quickly became tangled in the question of succession. Chiang Ching and her radical cohorts, who had faded from view since their days of pre-eminence during the Cultural Revolution, seized on the campaign to enhance their own political positions. They used the confusing but time-honored Chinese tradition of attacking the living by drawing carefully worded analogies to the dead...