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...factor in this year's selection was the five-day visit to China last October by the TIME Newstour of civic, academic and business leaders and Time Inc. editors. After viewing some of China's free-market experiments and spending more than an hour with Deng, the tour participants agreed that the country's transformation far surpassed their expectations. Says Senior Editor Henry Muller: "In addition to the physical dimension--the construction and the traffic--we were struck by the openness and pragmatism of the officials we met. They subjected us to none of the ideological rhetoric you get from...
Under Muller's overall supervision, 33 editors, writers, correspondents and reporter-researchers undertook to describe and analyze the "second revolution" under way in China. The main story was written by Senior Writer George Church, who notes, "Though Deng is the very opposite of an ideologue, we did more pondering of ideology and philosophy than usual in such a story." Church drew on files by Peking Bureau Chief Richard Hornik and Reporter Jaime FlorCruz and Hong Kong Correspondent Bing Wong. Another important contributor was Washington Correspondent and former Peking Bureau Chief David Aikman, who interviewed specialists on China and Marxism...
Hornik and FlorCruz provided reporting for Associate Editor Jim Kelly's story on the impact of Deng's reforms on three regions in China, and they also ferreted out biographical details for Associate Editor William Doerner's profile of the Chinese leader. For Associate Editor George Russell's story on reforms in other Marxist economies, Eastern Europe Bureau Chief Kenneth Banta supplied reporting and analysis from Hungary and Yugoslavia. Heading the Man of the Year reporter-researchers was Helen Sen Doyle, who has studied Russian at universities in Leningrad and Moscow...
...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...