Word: chou
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful Standing Committee of the Politburo, only two, Premier Chou En-lai and Defense Minister Lin Piao, survive...
...economy, too, has suffered ruinously. In February, Chou En-lai warned that China's vital coal production had fallen off alarmingly. Transportation has been totally disrupted, and sabotage of trains is common as the Maoists and anti-Maoists fight. Trucks are often idle for lack of fuel. China's biggest oil refinery at Taching was partly destroyed by sabotage and is still operating well below capacity-and below China's needs. Shortage of oil cut power to three hours a day in Canton in January, left Peking without heat for much of the winter. Steel and textile...
...long after he was posted to Pe king as French cultural counselor in 1964, Marcel Girard met Premier Chou En-lai and told him of an ambitious plan. He would like, said Girard, to put together the first guidebook to China since the Communists took power in 1949-and indeed, since the Japanese railways tried to produce one in 1924. Chou looked at the Frenchman in disbelief, saying only: "I wish you lots of luck...
...China in the safety of French diplomatic packets. Forbidden to visit the grave of Confucius in Shantung, Girard contrived to overfly it in a small plane so as to describe it better. When the two-year task was finally completed, a copy of the book was sent to Chou, who found only two things to complain about: that the book called Chiang Kai-shek's regime in Taiwan a "government" and Hong Kong "a British colony" (he called it a "Chinese territory occupied by British imperialism, which China is determined to recover...
Their fall from grace indicates that Mao and Lin are under mounting pressure from the regime's comparative moderates, who want to get China back on course after the excesses of the Cultural Revolution. Chief among them is Premier Chou Enlai, a pragmatist who holds no truck with the Cultural Revolution and himself barely escaped the Red Guards' condemnation. Chou recognizes the practical necessity of compromise to hold China's 750 million people together...