Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everything goes according to plan, that will never happen again. In the "new" Chinese ago of pragmatism, the era when the onetime "capitalist roaders" and the "stinking ninth category" of the intellectual elite will entrench themselves in power and Deng Xiaoping will not bat a hairy eyebrow when he labels Mao Zedong an "ultraleftist," people will lose their jobs for mistakes like that. For the signals emanating from the Great Hall of the People in the last two weeks tell us that in the ongoing struggle between economic growth and ideology, profits have become more important than politics...
...giant portraits of Mao and Stalin and Lenin and Marx that used to hang in Tien An Men Square have already begun to gather dust in a Peking warehouse and the Chinese are speaking a new language. Call it the language of capitalism or pragmatism or Deng but the vocabulary is different: market forces, decentralization, small-scale enterprise, "special economic zones." If you listen to the speeches long enough, the sounds coming from the Great Hall resemble a Raytheon board room more than a conference of command economy planners. "The only test now is whether it works," one young party...
Even before the congress opened last week, the new officials had quietly taken up the day-to-day operations of their posts. All are close associates of Deng's. The best known is Premier-designate Zhao, who enjoys a national reputation for his innovations with free markets, bonuses and a relatively liberal system of local autonomy in Sichuan, China's most populous province. Wan Li, 64, former head of Anhui province-and, as it happens, a reputed bridge partner of Deng's-will become head of the state agricultural commission...
...most delicate part of the changeover was the removal of Hua, who is two years younger than the 62-year-old man who will replace him. Some analysts, in fact, think that some serious quarrels could yet break out between Hua and Deng's proteges. The Deng forces have lately taken to making oblique attacks against Hua in the press. Most of the old Maoist programs that are now being discredited, for example, were ardently supported by Hua, the last major leader who owes his power directly to the patronage of Mao. A recent Central Committee directive against excessive...
Over the past few months, Hua has been noticed meeting with military commanders, who are also suspected of being unhappy with Deng, in part because of the low priority being given to modernization of the military establishment. Thus while the Deng forces seemed supreme as the congress opened, they had yet to prove that they could avoid the sort of factionalism in the party that has bedeviled China's leaders so often in the past...