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...including the grave sites on the hill across from his house, not far from where his father is buried. It is a sizable sum, built up over the years from the surplus grain and vegetables he has been able to sell since farmers' markets were legalized in 1979 by Deng Xiaoping. Chen is content: after seven decades of working the soil and being nourished by it, he has made all the arrangements to return to it, in the simplest of life cycles. He represents the first wave of free enterprise in China's long effort to modernize...
Instead, he was serving time behind bars for posting anti-government literature on the "Democracy Wall"--a facade near Tiananmen Square where reformers tacked on criticisms of Deng Xiaoping's new government...
...read this story online in China; Time Warner's Pathfinder site is on the list), a rising generation of Western-educated officials is pressing home the argument that the Net is the perfect vehicle to transport the Middle Kingdom into the 21st century. It's as if Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash...
...died in 1976, and with the years those adulatory cries of "Yes, yes!" have gradually faded. Leaders Mao trained, like Deng Xiaoping, were able to reverse Mao's policies even as they claimed to revere them. They gave back to the Chinese people the opportunities to express their entrepreneurial skills, leading to astonishing rates of growth and a complete transformation of the face of Chinese cities...
Yuri Andropov had only one year to make his imprint on Soviet policy before his kidneys failed him at age 69. But what if a timely transplant had allowed him to live the life span of Deng Xiaoping? Andropov was keenly aware of weaknesses in the Soviet system but had none of Gorbachev's moral compunctions about imprisoning or killing enemies. He almost certainly would have moved more aggressively to free the economy but more cautiously on social liberalizations--perestroika without glasnost. Following China's "Dengian policies," he might well have saved the Soviet Union--and extended the cold...