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DIED. RONG YIREN, 89, the original "red capitalist" who helped open China's economy to the world; in Beijing. Rong, who opted to stay on the mainland after the 1949 communist takeover while other industrialists fled abroad, was forced to sweep streets and haul coal during the Cultural Revolution before he was rehabilitated by Deng Xiaoping to help promote international commerce during the economic reforms of the 1980s. His China International Trust & Investment Corporation became a key player in attracting foreign capital, and although the billionaire was never a member of the Communist Party, he served as China's Vice...
...DIED. RONG YIREN, 89, the original "red capitalist" who helped open China's economy to the world; in Beijing. Rong, who opted to stay on the mainland after the 1949 Communist takeover while other industrialists fled abroad, surrendered his business interests to the state in 1956 and took up a series of prominent government posts. Forced to sweep streets and haul coal during the Cultural Revolution, he was later rehabilitated by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to help promote international commerce. In 1979 he founded the China International Trust & Investment Corporation (CITIC), a key player in attracting foreign capital...
...ended, he had been offered a position at Le Corbusier’s architectural firm in Paris, which he promptly accepted.He returned to Poland in 1949 to teach at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, but his modernist attitude was not popular with the post-war Communist government and he was, for a time, not permitted to teach architecture. He came to Harvard in 1959, was given tenure in 1965, served as chair of the architecture department from 1967 to 1974, and retired in 1979. He regularly visited the GSD right up until he was 89.Although he was more...
...DIED, ALEXANDER YAKOVLEV, 81, ally in President Mikhail Gorbachev's democratic reform and restructuring of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s; in Moscow. Badly wounded fighting with the Red Army in 1943, Yakovlev joined the Communist Party and rose quickly, serving as acting head of propaganda from 1965 until his increasingly liberal views saw him sidelined as Soviet ambassador to Canada in 1972. Gorbachev met Yakovlev there in 1983 and recalled him as a trusted collaborator, later promoting him to the Politburo. Together the pair set about the reform process described by Yakovlev as "trying to dismantle...
...DIED. BA JIN, 100, Chinese literary giant; in Shanghai. A member of the young intelligentsia that criticized China's pre-Communist society, he studied anarchism, and wrote Family, a brutal 1931 novel about feudal life that was his seminal work. During the Cultural Revolution, he was condemned by the Communist leaders who had once hailed him, but he regained his stature in the 1980s, publishing dozens of essays and winning election as a leader of the country's official Writers Association...