Word: deng
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...TIME cover story about him. Rauschenberg, who had been visiting China to supervise a show of his work in Peking and Tibet, met with Art Director Rudy Hoglund in Japan. Says Hoglund: "We thought he would be able to suggest something new and revolutionary for a Deng cover." The artist used his firsthand observation and some of his own photographs to create a collage of images, including a scissors cutting a ribbon to show that something new is opening in China. Says Rauschenberg, who also visited the country in 1982: "Today there is a new spirit, a new curiosity, that...
COVER: Collage by Robert Rauschenberg. Photograph of Deng by David Hume Kennerly...
...China's Deng Xiaoping leads 1 billion people on a far-reaching, bold but risky second revolution Defying the precepts most cherished by traditional Marxists, he is attempting to blend on a monumental scale elements that seem irreconcilable: state ownership and private property, central planning and competitive markets, political dictatorship and limited economic and cultural freedom. The reforms are a big gamble, and they face considerable domestic opposition. But if they work, the world will not be the same...
...country changes course The winds of reform have swept over China with unequal force. Sichuan is a showcase for the new agriculture, Shenzhen is a magnet for foreign investment and a high-tech boomtown, but Shanghai remains peculiarly impervious to Deng's goals...
...next generation of leaders Ambitious, better educated than their elders and eager to use their skills, the young men and women now moving up will help determine whether Deng's reforms succeed or fail...