Word: deng
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deputy Party Chairman Deng Xiaoping, China's most powerful leader, who had permitted a modicum of dissent in the late 1970s, much as Mao had launched his shortlived "Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom" movement in 1957. Now Deng too has had second thoughts about the first faint burgeonings of freedom he inspired. Lately Deng has complained that the relative relaxation of recent years has led to a host of "unhealthy tendencies," most notably in literature and art. The press has referred darkly to the emergence of an artistic "counterculture" and complained of stories and plays that "propagate pessimism, nihilism...
Even Chinese leaders, like Deng himself, have stressed that the current campaign will produce nothing like the sweeping repression of the past, when tens of thousands were indiscriminately shipped off to labor camps or killed. Nor does it seem that China's leaders are preparing to impose anything like the absolute uniformity in literature and art that was ordained during the Cultural Revolution. But the new crackdown has had a dampening effect on many writers and artists who had been hoping that the government would allow ever greater degrees of free expression...
...China, dined with Premier Zhao Ziyang, cycled with commuters and displayed Sherpa-like stamina by scampering up and down the steeper sections of the Great Wall as Wife Rosalynn and former Press Secretary Jody Powell, 37, gasped for breath. At a tête-à-tête with Deng Xiaoping, 77, in the Great Hall of the People, Carter told the Chinese Senior Vice Chairman, "If you had been my running mate in the last election, we would have won again." So much for Walter What's-His-Name...
...When Deng emerged from exile in 1975, he got Hu out of the stables. But after Hu prepared a report charging that the government was misusing China's leading scientists as field workers, he was again purged. His report was damned as "a big poisonous weed...
Following Mao's death in 1976, Hu once again was brought back to power by Deng. Since 1980, he has managed the party's everyday affairs as Secretary-General of the Central Committee. Lately, the press of work has reportedly forced Hu and Deng to give up playing bridge, their favorite game...