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...elaborate as those of the empires that preceded them. So when Chen Yun died at 89 last Monday, the citizens of Beijing braced themselves for the usual run of lowered flags, martial music, and long paeans to his revolutionary contributions. After all, Chen ranked second only to Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping in China's pantheon of post-Mao leaders, and the two were often viewed as fierce rivals...
...Chinese leaders know that the Tibetan issue is becoming critical; today in Tibet Cultural Revolution methods have returned and tired socialist pleas absent from China are more vociferous than ever. If the Tibetans escalate their fight in a lastchance response (and here timing in post-Deng China would be critical), the effects would easily spill into neighboring regions. The very stability that China has been emphasizing over the past two years will unravel. Remember: martial law was imposed on Tibet three months before Tiananmen Square...
...Deng fades from the scene, a fierce debate is beginning, questioning the correctness of his reforms and pondering what steps should come next. The discussion is going on mostly in private because the party's political control and the zeal of the censors are still strong. Chinese intellectuals are extremely cautious about putting their views forward publicly...
...lives mainly on his royalties and profits from playing the stock and futures markets. His Third Eye was an extended political essay, startlingly plainspoken by Chinese standards but relatively abstruse to Western eyes and far from a liberal tract. Even Chinese readers disagree whether its observations tend to support Deng or his radical opponents...
...book argued that of all the Communist Party's errors, the most serious was its failure to deal with the vast, impoverished countryside and the 700 million mostly poor peasants. It charged the intelligentsia with forgetting how to think. Most shocking, it asked directly whether the post-Deng leadership should adopt some of Mao Zedong's more centralized policies...