Word: chou
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CHAI SPOKE a word of greeting, praised Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai for beginning negotiations, mentioned Presidents Nixon and Ford, and thanked Carter, Vance and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He added that normalization would "certainly play an active role in combatting the expansion and aggression of hegemonism and upholding peace and stability in Asia and the world." He expressed the belief that all would go well, as well as the conviction that this was a momentous and great occasion. He ended by toasting the normalization and friendship between the two countries and the health of America's leaders...
Teng works in a wary, complementary partnership with Hua. The Hua-Teng relationship has a kind of model in the roles and personalities of Mao and of Chou Enlai, who was Teng's sponsor and protector. While Mao was a visionary and Hua remains his dogmatist and disciple, Chou, like Teng, was a flexible realist. There is still undoubtedly personal as well as ideological conflict between Teng and Hua. Hua, for example, approved Teng's second purging, but now apparently endorses the Four Modernizations. In a sense, Hua may play chairman of the board to Teng's chief executive officer...
Teng's modernization campaign has its origins in Premier Chou En-lai's report on the work of the government delivered at the Fourth National People's Congress in 1975. It was the Premier's last publicized appearance outside a hospital (he died of cancer a year later). Chou sketched plans to improve China's agriculture by 1980 as part of "the Four Modernizations" that would "turn a poverty-stricken and backward country into a socialist one with the beginnings of prosperity in only 20 years or more." That report (and the Four Modernizations slogan) is widely believed to have...
...boys from China awarded scholarships to study in France. Instead of studying, the 16-year-old Teng got a job in a Paris galosh factory. At the same time, he helped out in the offices of a Chinese Communist periodical called Red Light. Its editor was Chou Enlai, who later became Teng's patron and protector. Teng's zeal in carrying out the menial chores of binding and mimeographing the magazine soon earned him the nickname of "Doctor of Mimeography...
...joined Mao's legendary Long March?the heroic, 6,000-mile trek by the party's forces, under constant harassment by Chiang Kai-shek's armies?to remote Yenan, in Shensi province. Food was scarce in the mountainous caves, but Teng rose ingeniously to the occasion. According to Chou's secretary, Yang Yi-chih, Teng earned the gratitude of Mao and other party leaders because of his skills, not in the military arts, but in cooking. He was justly famous for devising a tasty concoction known as Teng's "Hung shao Ko-juo" (Dog meat with brown sauce...