Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area, where a decidedly unsocialist billboard exhorts, TIME IS MONEY! EFFICIENCY IS LIFE! In the midst of those developments, many peasant families own three-story houses furnished with stereo systems, refrigerators and color TVs (sometimes two per family so that parents can watch one program and children another). When Deng Xiaoping, 79, China's de facto leader, paid a visit in January, he asked one resident how much he earned. Upon hearing the reply (more than $300 a month), the leader observed, with as much amusement as amazement, "You make more than...
Meanwhile, Deng has forced China out of the ethnocentricity developed over two millenniums of imperial supremacy and resuscitated by the almost religious xenophobia of Mao, while urging it to look outward for its economic models. "The Chinese have rediscovered that they are the center of the world," observes a Western diplomat in Peking. "They have put themselves in the position of being courted by everyone...
...will the reformists? Only last month Deng told Japan's Prime Minister, Yasuhiro Nakasone, "In another five years, I don't expect to be alive." Adept at maneuvering behind the scenes (he has twice turned down the title of Premier), Deng has done everything possible to clear the way for his protégés. Eighteen months after he pledged his support to Mao's hand picked successor as Chairman, Hua Guofeng, Deng replaced him with General Secretary Hu Yaobang and installed Zhao Ziyang as Premier. Now most experts agree that although the "open door" will continue to swing...
...dawn of the Cultural Revolution, Mao wrote to his wife that after his death the rightists would seize power. But, he went on to assure her, leftists would soon take it back again. Deng and China have helped the first part of the prophecy to come true. For all their achievements, though, they know that the second part is by no means impossible...
...eight years since the death of Mao, Deng has installed the revolutionary notion that people produce more if offered incentives. Without upheaval or fanfare, without blatant feuds at the top or bloody purges at the grass roots, Deng and his pragmatic colleagues have brought about the most sweeping reforms ever attempted under the banner of Marxism. They have transformed the nation's agricultural system, awakened its cultural life and quintupled the income of millions of peasants. Their ambitions, moreover, seem almost limitless: they aim to quadruple the gross national product, double the nation's output of energy, and raise...