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...ever come back to visit?" I asked. No, others had returned to this Valley Forge of the Chinese Revolution-Chou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, others. But not Mao. He lived in a world of his own and never looked back...
...decisions come to final judgment in the six-man Standing Committee, a band of old wartime veterans dominated by Deng Xiaoping. He does not hold China's highest titles (he is chairman of both the party and government military commissions), but there is no doubt that he is the "para mount leader." Deng is a tiny man (approximately 5 ft. tall), half elf, half gunman; at 79 he is China's foremost pragmatist and is engagingly candid. A brilliant youngster who graduated from high school at 15, he went off to France after World...
...party training camp outside Peking. But he bears larger scars of memory. During the Great Terror, one of his sons was forced to jump-or was pushed-from the fourth-story window of his student dormitory, and is now paralyzed from the waist down, a cripple for life. Deng is a reasonable man, also a hard man. He does not forget...
Chen suffered only lightly during the Cultural Revolution - exiled to the south in 1969, returning to power only after Deng regained control...
...publication presages a major housecleaning of the 39 million-member Communist Party, which includes numerous local officials and army officers who rose to power during the Cultural Revolution and have remained loyal to Mao's precepts. A widely circulated government statement has announced that study of Deng's book is "important ideological preparation for an overall party consolidation to be started this autumn and winter." For three years the party rosters will be reviewed, and members with leftist leanings or who are convicted of political or economic crimes are likely to be dropped. In publishing his Selected Works...