Word: ching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy statements condemning backsliding in collective agriculture and on relations between soldiers and civilians. Some sort of political confrontation is taking place; one of the few details now known is that Teng Hsiaoping, a capable economic administrator, has recently jumped into the lineup of Politburo members ahead of Chiang Ching, who has been a virtual despot in the performing arts since the Great Cultural Revolution. Chiang Ching, who is married to Mao Tse-Tung, had asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to play Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony last fall, and it is still not clear whether her position has changed...
...target, some Western observers speculated, was not Beethoven, Schubert, or even poor Mozart, but someone much closer at hand. Though Sinologists differed as to who the target might be, one school went so far as to speculate that it was none other than Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the self-anointed cultural overseer of the People's Republic. Chiang Ching had warmly welcomed the Western orchestras and had specifically asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to include Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the "Pastoral," in its program...
Newfangled Ideas. Chiang Ching and her colleagues, this group of Sinologists noted, had been behind recent attacks on Confucius, which, as everyone in China seemed to know, was really their way of denouncing the pragmatists led by Premier Chou Enlai. The ball is now back in Chiang Ching's court, and who knows how she will show her wrath against Chou's group? Will she lash out at such modern composers as Bartdk and Stravinsky, assuming that everyone realizes she means you-know-who and his newfangled ideas? Or will she defiantly schedule a Peking Beethoven Festival...
...other group important to the CFIA includes the Japanese scholars. Yet the East Asian Center will not be moving, electing to remain with the Y'en Ching Library on Divinity Ave. In addition, the proposed Japanese Institute will someday be located near the Y'en Ching, according to University officials. In short, the CFIA would be at the opposite end of the campus from its two most vital "research allies...
...seemed a cultural crime. In mainland China during the late 1960s, as part of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, the ancient art of Peking opera was deliberately put to death. The person responsible was Mao's wife, Chinese Cultural Queen Chiang Ching. To Madame Mao, Peking opera was bourgeois, reactionary, too concerned with court life. She replaced it with an unadorned, realistic style of opera that celebrates the struggles of workers, peasants and soldiers against landlords and imperialists. Gone forever, or so it seemed, were the highly stylized music dramas about kings and concubines, scholars and lute...