Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...televised media event on the eve of celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China was the most public step yet in the grooming of Jiang, 63, to succeed 85-year-old party patriarch Deng Xiaoping. When Jiang, the mayor of Shanghai, was selected in June to replace ousted General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, most Chinese were surprised. An engineer who lacks both a political power base and ties to the increasingly influential military, Jiang was considered a seat warmer ultimately destined for lesser things...
...since then a series of leaks to the foreign press of internal party circulars has provided documentation of Deng's efforts to convince conservative claimants to his throne that the reform-minded Jiang should follow in the footsteps of Mao Zedong and Deng and serve as "the core" of the party's "third-generation" leadership. By playing such a prominent role in last week's anniversary observances, Jiang has achieved front-runner status in the race to succeed Deng. Put another way, Jiang has won his New Hampshire primary -- but the race is far from over...
...Butterfield '61, New York Times reporterand East Asian expert, said that student unreststemmed from high inflation and politicalcorruption that accompanied the economic reformsof Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping...
...possible for a non-Communist to be a factory manager in China, but most managers are still card-carrying party members. Even so, there is always a party secretary to enforce Communist discipline. Before Deng's reforms, there was no question that the Communist secretary dominated, even if he was functionally illiterate in basic business precepts. Since 1984, though, Beijing has directed that party secretaries leave operations to the factories' designated managers -- a direct slap at Leninist ideology, which holds that since the party is the only body capable of enforcing the will of the workers, factories must be under...
...varies from place to place. "It is nothing more than a normal battle for control," admits a factory party secretary in Jinan. "I don't know much about what my factory actually does, but that doesn't mean I don't want to be the boss." At Lun Feng, Deng's system works fairly well. Only after Tiananmen did the secretary actively meddle, but then just to direct that the radio be tuned to a mainland station rather than one in Hong Kong. The music the workers listen to all day is the same, but the news is different...