Word: chou
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...1930s when, as a country-boy corporal in the Communist forces fighting the Nationalist regime, he became Mao's personal bodyguard. He quickly rose to command Mao's entire security force; in a legendary 1947 operation, he managed to save Mao, Chiang Ch'ing and Chou En-lai from capture by Nationalist troops in their cave headquarters in Yenan...
...force in the family. She designed its coat of arms, which features a duck-billed platypus-"an egg-laying mammal that suckles its young," explains Punch-and the motto NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE. Not for her, anyway. She traveled to China several years ago with a granddaughter and playfully invited Chou En-lai to write for the Times; he declined. The matriarch rarely interferes in Arthur's affairs. "Sons either have an Oedipus complex about their mothers or hate the ole gal for giving them too much chicken soup," says she. "But then I believe in telling my children what...
...stunning triumph for Teng, a protege of the late Chou Enlai's, who was ousted from leadership positions by Mao in 1966, and again in 1976, when Chiang Ch'ing led the pack that hounded him into ignominy. Teng's return was also a dramatic demonstration of China's erratic course in the past decade-from pragmatism to radical zeal and back again. In modern Communist history, no other politician had ever risen to such heights of power and descended to such depths of disgrace-twice in a lifetime-and survived to rule again...
...member Central Committee met secretly in Peking from July 16 to July 21. Its purpose: to consider the rehabilitation of Teng and the final debasement of Chiang Ch'ing and her gang. While the committee was casting its vote, visitors to an exhibition in Peking commemorating Chou En-lai noted that there were 24 photographs of Teng standing beside the man he had hoped to succeed as Premier...
...posts, driven by the Red Guards through the streets wearing a dunce cap, and dispatched to seven years in disgrace. In 1973 Teng made his first surprising reappearance, at a banquet in Peking. He soon became Vice Premier and the closest collaborator and heir presumptive of Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou's health had begun to fail, Teng headed a delegation to the United Nations in 1974-a hint that he might take over the Premier's role as China's main negotiator with foreign leaders...